I agree it is hackish.
By definition, a constructor is a method. The "constructor code" is not contained in a method, but it does serve the same purpose.
At 11:29 AM 7/24/2003 -0700, you wrote:
official or not, it's still rather hackish, IMHO. Much better to add an init() method and explicitly call that when you create the object, because then you can also pass parameters to it (impossible with the native 'constructor').
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