From: Sean O'Dell <sean@...>
Date: 2004-06-29T00:58:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Is it considered Harmful?

On Monday 28 June 2004 08:33, Mikael Brockman wrote:
>
> I think what Patrick means is that all methods assume that their class's
> initialization method has been called.  Currently, it's guaranteed to be
> called, since #new calls it.  What you're proposing -- #class= --
> removes that guarantee.

#class= can only be called on existing objects, so it can't prevent 
initialization from happening (it already happened before you can even make 
the call).  The takeover class inherits an already-initialized object.  I'm 
not sure how else to say that.  The object is already initialized, #class= 
cannot prevent that.  Both classes, the old and the new, work with an 
already-initialized object.

	Sean O'Dell