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Re: out of sheer curiosity... [message #177574 is a reply to message #177564] Tue, 10 April 2012 11:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Thomas Mlynarczyk is currently offline  Thomas Mlynarczyk
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Jerry Stuckle schrieb:

> In OO terminology, the correct term is "constructor". I'm not familiar
> with Python, so I can't say what Python calls it. But the name is not
> as important as the job.

True. But one still has to keep in mind that the constructor is not
constructing the object, but initializing it.

> Initialization is NEVER harmful if it is done properly. That's the
> whole purpose of initialization!. wakeup() is NOT a constructor - any
> more than sleep() is a destructor.

You would have to take extra measures to prevent re-initializing an
already initialized object. Your constructor would need to detect what
type of initialization is required (freshly created by `new`, cloned or
unserialized). While certainly possible, this would be cumbersome.
Different magic initializers are clearly the better way to go.

> wakeup() is not a constructor. If you consider it a constructor, then
> you must also consider sleep() to be a destructor - in which case it
> would be illegal to call the destructor after calling sleep().

__wakeup() is an initializer, just like __construct() and __clone(). And
__sleep() is still not a destructor -- see my earlier post.

> It is the opposite of wakeup() - just like __construct() is the opposite
> of __destruct(). You can't have it both ways.

I think we do agree that __sleep() is not a destructor. And maybe we can
agree that __construct(), __clone() and __wakeup() all perform
initialization tasks and thus could be all called "initializers".

Greetings,
Thomas


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