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From: haahr@netcom.com (Paul Haahr)
Subject: Re: Initialising classes in Mindy
In-Reply-To: Cyber Surfer's message of Wed, 28 Aug 96 14:19:35 GMT
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cyber_surfer@wildcard.demon.co.uk wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty getting the initialise method
> to be called. As I understand it, this method should be
> called automatically, when an instance of a class is created.
> Is this correct? Is the following code correct? When I run
> it in Mindy, I have to call initialise explicitly.  [...]
> 
> define method initialise(maze :: <maze>, #key all-keys: all-keys)
> 	format("init: %=\n", all-keys);
> 	maze.m := make(<array>, dimensions: vector(maze.x, maze.y));
> end method;

Try the American spelling ``initialize.''

(Someone was saying something about software not written in the US?)
