[Xotcl] Re: [Xotcl] Probable bug: no method calls with "next" & init

Kristoffer Lawson setok@fishpool.com
Mon, 5 Feb 2001 23:36:12 +0200 (EET)


On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Gustaf Neumann wrote:

>   Somehow, i have the feeling, that Kristoffer intended a class to the
>   method "whatever". Why not use:                    
> 
>      Class Bar -superclass Foo
>      Bar instproc init {} {
>        next myArg
>        [self] whatever niceSystem
>      }

Because the "whatever" method should be called along with the object
creation -- and specifically before it takes place. Just as if I had
created an object of the superclass with -whatever in the init line.

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