From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso@...>
Date: 2002-04-04T19:11:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshalling and initialize

"Chris Morris" <home@clabs.org> writes:

> Is there ever a case where a call to initialize during deserialization would
> be a Good Thing, or is it generally expected that, like the Marshal module,
> the class be instantiated without it?

Only if initialise changes the system state, such as setting a global
variable value. But if this is the case, then you should put in a
separate modules the code that change the global variable value, and
write a customised deserialisation procedure.


YS.