On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 04:56, Leopold Toetsch wrote: > I've put in the new scheme for initializer calls. > To test it, set the environment variable "CALL__BUILD" to some value. > > Sample code to set an initializer to "_new" > > new P10, .PerlString > set P10, "_new" > newclass P1, "Foo" > setprop P1, "BUILD", P10 > > The BUILD initializer is called for all parents as "__init" was. There > is additionally a "CONSTRUCT" initializer, which is only called for the > top-level class. > > The instantiation "new Pobj, Iclass" can now take an additional > initializer too: > > new Pobj, Iclass, PInit > > This initializer is available as first param in the init method.
I'm happy with this. A similar scheme will work nicely for deconstructors. (I looked for where to make this possible, but didn't see any obvious hooks.) -- c
