Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-04-07 Thread Tim Bunce
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 08:15:03AM +0100, Andy Wardley wrote: > Dan wrote: > > Should be FINALIZE. > > Although some in the non-US English speaking world might say it should > be FINALISE. FYI: FINALIZE is the spelling used by the Oxford English Dictionary. See http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexp

Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-04-07 Thread Andy Wardley
Dan wrote: > Should be FINALIZE. Although some in the non-US English speaking world might say it should be FINALISE. Perhaps FINAL might be a better choice? That would please more of the people for more of the time (or displease them for less of the time). A

Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-04-06 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 10:29 PM -0800 4/1/04, chromatic wrote: On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:39, Dan Sugalski wrote: Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization, finalization, and fallback method locating. We need to do this because we're in the semi-unenviable position of supporting multiple lang

Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-04-06 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization, > finalization, and fallback method locating. As the current init scheme isn't really flying (and not in sync with this proposal) here is a first hack to get it running. > CONSTRUCT is the

Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-04-01 Thread chromatic
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:39, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Okay, here's a sketch of where I'm going with the initialization, > finalization, and fallback method locating. We need to do this > because we're in the semi-unenviable position of supporting multiple > languages that do this but that *don't*

Re: Initializers, finalizers, and fallbacks

2004-03-03 Thread Leopold Toetsch
Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I'm thinking of instead is to put properties on the class > namespace PMC that indicate which method, if any, in the namespace is > the proper method. And because initialization and finalization are... > interesting (don't ask, we'll go there later) w