Bert your are super!<div><br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
* never call "super initialize" on the class side</blockquote><div> Why? I thought it was "polite" to do it, =)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:10, Bert Freudenberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bert@freudenbergs.de">bert@freudenbergs.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On 20.03.2010, at 09:46, Alex Schenkman wrote:<br>
> Hi List!<br>
><br>
> I'm playing with class variables. How should I initialize them?<br>
> I've tried with the class method initialize but it does not do the job.<br>
><br>
> Pirulo class>>initialize<br>
> super initialize.<br>
> myClassVar := Dictionary new at: 'one' put: 1.<br>
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</div></div>* never call "super initialize" on the class side<br>
* class variables should be capitalized<br>
* class initializers need to be executed manually<br>
* they are only executed automatically when loading the class (e.g. file-in or via Monticello)<br>
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So this would be right:<br>
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Pirulo class>>initialize<br>
"self initialize"<br>
<div class="im"> MyClassVar := Dictionary new at: 'one' put: 1.<br>
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</div>The "self initialize" comment is conventionally put there so you can easily double-click after the opening quotes to select the whole expression, and do-it. You need to do it any time you change the initialize method. This works because when evaluating code in a Browser, "self" refers to the currently selected class.<br>
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- Bert -<br>
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