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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Joseph Alotta<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 10, 2016 3:38 PM<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>> On May 10, 2016, at 12:45 PM, Ron Teitelbaum [via Smalltalk] <<a href="/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4894237&i=0" target="_top">[hidden email]</a>> wrote: <br>> <br>> Hi Joe, <br>> <br>> Excellent question. Try this. <br>> <br>> Object new. <br>> <br>> Highlight it and do debug it. Click "Into" to go into the #new method. <br>> <br>> Notice the implementation of #new. <br>> <br>> You should be able to see there that #initialize is called automatically. <br>> <br>> Also for extra points notice what class new is implemented on. <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>Behavior <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Ron Teitelbaum] Exactly! <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>> What method should you call to skip initialize? <br><br>basicNew <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Ron Teitelbaum] Excellent!<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br>More questions: why isn’t there a command key for debug it? <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Ron Teitelbaum] No clue. <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br> why isn’t my initialize method not running or running without setting variables? <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>[Ron Teitelbaum] put a halt in your method and run it. See if the initialize is being called at all. If it is then check the content of your method for errors. If not then your initialize method is spelled wrong, is not on the instance side, or there is a new method implemented in your class or a superclass that is bypassing the default implementation of #new which is a bad thing. The system gives you a warning to let you know that!! </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ron<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><br>Thank you. <br><br>Sincerely, <br><br>Joe. <br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div class=MsoNormal><hr size=3 width=300 style='width:2.5in' align=left></div><p class=MsoNormal>View this message in context: <a href="http://forum.world.st/new-and-initialize-tp4894227p4894237.html">Re: new and initialize</a><br>Sent from the <a href="http://forum.world.st/Squeak-Beginners-f107673.html">Squeak - Beginners mailing list archive</a> at Nabble.com.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>