From: "christoforever@..." <christoforever@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T22:02:38+09:00
Subject: Thread: super should be first line or last line?

While playing around with ruby threads I noticed that if you dont call
super when subclassing a thread you will get an initialization error.
So ok we throw a super in the initialize method and that clears things
up. Unfortunately if you put super as the first line in the initialize
method the rest of the initialize will not execute but the block which
is part of the initial thread creation gets initialized. However if
you put super as the last statement in the initialize method, the
whole initialize gets executed and then the block from the thread
creation gets executed. Does anyone else find this a bit funny? And
what is a good practice when subclassing thread... to put super first
or last statement in the initialize method? and is there any benefit
for either?