2011/2/25 Göran Krampe <goran at krampe.se>:
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> And finally, as you said - classes should ideally have #release ( opposite
> of initialize) methods I guess if they need to make modifications to the
> image before they get deleted. Not sure if that has ever been used for class
> side initializers - anyone care to elaborate on Smalltalk history here?

To me, at least ,#release would mean something completely different
than what you have mentioned here.  I'd much rather see a method named
something like #prepForUnload.

-Chris