Re: Assigning default slot value plus side effects?

[george@huntsai.boeing.com (George Williams)]

In a recent submission from hall@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Marty Hall):
> ...  initialize-instance
>uses slot-value (not the accessors) for putting values in slots.
> ...
>Peter Saurugger responded that he didn't think there was any clean
>approach, and went on to say:
>> 
>> While the X3JI3 Specs mention the possibility of adding to the existing
>> initialization-protocol, the behaviour you describe does not seem to be
>> mentioned in this document.
>> 
>> I agree very strongly with you that on initialization I would expect the
>> same behaviour as when updating a slot.

It seems like one reason why you would _not_ want the initialization
protocol to invoke the accessor methods is that these methods
frequently depend on the slot being already initialized.  E.g., an
:after method which increments the slot value after each reference.

George Williams
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