On Apr 25, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:

[init] isn't equivalent to new.
Init is like RB's constructor (it can be called at any time)

[alloc] is equivalent to new.

RB's new is more like [alloc[ init ]]

Yeah, I suppose so. But since +alloc creates the object and -init sets up state, I equated +alloc to 'new' an -init to a constructor() function. Perhaps it wasn't a good comparison.

-- Asher

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