> Am 04.03.2019 um 03:46 schrieb Ben Coman <[email protected]>:
>
> 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' ]
>
Isn’t the usual way to do that to register the class in the shutdown list and
implement #shutdown: ?
Norbert
