http://blogs.divisibleprime.com/ronin/articles/2007/06/25/harmful-constructors en-us 40 Stuff <blockquote> <p><a href="http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2007/06/constructors-considered-harmful.html">Gilad Bracha</a>: So why not get rid of constructors and have a class declaration create a factory object instead? Well, Smalltalk did just that a generation ago. Every time you define a class, you define the factory object for its instances. I won’t explain the Smalltalk metaclass hierarchy here. Suffice to say that it is a thing of beauty, resolving a potential infinite regress with an elegant circularity.</p> </blockquote> <p>This is a good article, and I&#8217;ve certainly hit the problems talked about with both Smalltalk and Java. I&#8217;m looking forward to some examples&#8230;</p> Mon, 25 Jun 2007 18:25:00 +0100 urn:uuid:81a5d3c7-c4a3-4694-a89a-cdbdd619cfd5 Kerry http://blogs.divisibleprime.com/ronin/articles/2007/06/25/harmful-constructors Java Smalltalk java smalltalk scala constructors oo http://blogs.divisibleprime.com/ronin/articles/trackback/934