🚀 go-pugleaf

On 12 Jul 1999 12:16:12 +0200, Tor Iver Wilhelmsen
<tor.wilhelmsen@sds.no> wrote:

>Tom.Eugelink@OVSoftware.com writes:
>
>> It seems to me there is no reason why the declares shouldn't be
>> executed when the constructor is entered instead of just before the
>> first line in the constructor...
>
>Your _actual_ problem is that fireman.display() _masks_
>person.display(), and methods are invoked dynamically.

Oh, I understand what is going wrong and the logic behind it. But that
still does not convince me that it is the best solution. 

Afterall, I did enter the constructor of the fireman class, so I feel
that that is enough reason to have all instance variables not only
allocated but also declared. I now had to resort to an if statement in
each constructor checking the name of the class against a (hardcoded)
value to see if I am at toplevel and can make the display call safely.
(And that is coding I consider, eh, rude... ;-)

Tom