On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:56 PM, Greg A. Woods; Planix, Inc. wrote:
Initially though this recommendation didn't make any sense to me because I didn't know how the implementation of #new in Behaviour is different from strict Smalltalk-80 as I understand it. I.e. originally in Smalltalk-80 #new did not also send #initialize, but now in Squeak it does.
This recent (!) change to auto-initialize puzzles me as well. So much existing code was written with the opposite case being true, that it seems so risky to change! To diverge from the ST-80 standard is even more risky, I would think.
I was convinced that this change is the one-and-only reason why BDFFontReader became broken. So what else is broken now because of this change? I don't know. What human logic instigated the change? I also don't know. Perhaps it makes the system more accessible or consistent for newbies?
It was because of changes like this that I kind of threw in the hat on Squeak for a while, after 3.8 and before 3.10. It seemed all these weird changes that seemed illogical to me (a relative newcomer to Smalltalk) were being made, while existing problems were not being addressed.
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