Hi Ben,
It's probably time to revisit
http://smallissimo.blogspot.com/2011/08/lazy-initialization-of-shared-variable.html?m=1


Le lun. 4 mars 2019 à 03:47, Ben Coman <[email protected]> a écrit :

> In relation to developing sample solutions for an Exercism exercise, the
> following observation was made about class initialization...
>
> > class is initialized on load - and not when you modify it - so this can
> be very confusing for users
>
> My first thought was to wonder if Quality Assistant could track whether a
> class initialize method had been run after it was modified,
> and display alerts.
>
> Alternatively, I wonder if a reasonable pattern would be to
> couple class-side lazy initialization
> with a pragma to reset a variable when the method is saved...
>
>     MyClass class >> referenceData
>         <onSaveResetVariable: ReferenceData>
>         ^ ReferenceData := ReferenceData ifNil: [ 'reference data' ]
>
> cheers -ben
>

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