On 16 June 2012 21:07, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Stéphane, would you mind expanding a bit on what mistake CLOS didn't make? > > create-instance invokes initialize-instance in CLOS for every class. > > In Smalltalk (not squeak or pharo), new does not invoke initialize. Now CLOS > arrived 10 years after Smalltalk and we fixed > that problem in our lovely environment.
OK, that's what I thought you meant. For instance, Objective-C repeats the mistake: [[MyClass alloc] init]. Thanks! frank > Stef > >
