<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org> said:
>I am not sure that is a common practice though. I sure wouldn't trust on
>it to work unless the method says so or something. And then I would
>rather have a "reset" method or something.
>
Yup. 

Foo>>initialize
    self reset

Foo>>reset
    bar := nil.
    quux := 42.

is what I always use in these cases if I need to call (parts of)
initialize code later on in the life cycle of an object.

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