Re: RFC 189 (v1) Objects : Hierarchical calls to initializersanddestructors

[email protected] (Damian Conway) Sat, 2 Sep 2000 11:32:54 +1100 (EST)

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   > But I've gotta nitpick the name. I wonder if BLESS wouldn't be better?
   > print calls PRINT, printf calls PRINTF, even if the subs don't do any
   > printing. Sure makes it easier to see what's going on, to me at least.

But BLESS doesn't do blessing. It does set-up. So it's called SETUP. :-)

I'm certainly not averse to a better name -- INIT would be ideal, if it
weren't already spoken for -- but I think BLESS would be misleading.

Damian