newbie questions

[Hilaire Fernandes]

Hilaire Fernandes a écrit :
> Chris Muller a écrit :
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>>> Is commit: only to be used when you want to persist an object?
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>> To persist an object, you must use commit.
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> Ok, related to this question, here is a situation we are use to: lazy 
> initialization.
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> Now here is the following situation:
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> Let's MyClass with an attribute diner which is lazilly initialized
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> MyClass>>diner
>   diner ifNil:
>     [diner := Diner with: self friends].
>   ^ diner
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> An intsance of this class is persisted, next outisde of a transaction, I 
>  am accessing the diner attribute, thus a Diner instance is created.
> If I understand correctly this instance will not be persisted.
> Is it the case?

I can reply myself after a short experimenation, yes it is the case. The 
  Diner instance will not be persisted.

Hilaire