Is  #initialize a class method or an instance method?

If it is a class method usually the person puts something like:
------cut here----
initialize
	"MotherDuck initialize"
	"rest of the code goes here"
----cut here----

If it is an instance method one of the superclasses class methods #new would
look like the following:

	"This method creates a new instance of the receiver."
	^super new initialize.

which would then call your instance method.

]{evin.


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Philippe de Rochambeau [SMTP:pr1 at club-internet.fr]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 24, 1998 6:58 AM
> To:	Squeak
> Cc:	"recipient.list.not.shown"; @cs.uiuc.edu at nfsbrute
> Subject:	A beginner's question regarding Inside Smalltalk vol II
> 
> Please disregard my previous questions regarding the first example (page
> 16)
> in Wilf LaLonde's book. I have solved most of them except one:
> 
> - the MotherDuck class has a method called "initialize". However, at no
> point
> in the code is that method called. Why? Does the MotherDuck class have an
> ancestor that calls "initialize" when "new" is used?
> 
> Does anyone know Wilf LaLonde e-mail address?
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Philippe de Rochambeau