Even though Object>>#initialize doesn't do anything, I still recommend
calling "super initialize" just for. If you're doing an allocation
anyway, one super call ot a method that does nothing will not be a
performance issue. But I feel is it is better-form to call super.
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Stéphane Ducasse
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> I browsed a lot of code with jb friday and I saw that lot of classes that predate the automatic initialize
> introduction (squeak 3.7) do not have a nice initialize methods. In particular old tools, have a particular style.
> I wanted to raise this point. I would really like to have classes that take responsibilities to initialize objects with
> decent/default instance variables. It will make the code easier to understand and evolve.
> If you have some (counter) arguments I'm all ears.
>
> Stef
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