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Subject: Re: Constructeurs en O'Caml 
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From: Vyskocil Vladimir <Vladimir.Vyskocil@sophia.inria.fr>
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> Vyskocil Vladimir writes:
>  > Existe-t'il comme en C++ une fonction qui est appelee a la construction d'un
>  > objet (pas seulement pour initialiser des variables d'instances) ?
> 
> No, there's nothing such a "constructor" method, but a way to circumvent this
> is to do the job as a side effect, when initializing the members. See the fol-
> lowing sample code :
> 
>   class my_class name =
>     (* MEMBERS *)
>   
>     val n = 
>       (* begin constructor *)
> 	  ...;
>       (* end constructor *)
>       name
>   
>     (* METHODS *)
>     ... 
>   end
> 

Yes, but such contructor can't call a object method because self is
bind only at execution ie I can't do the following :

class my_class name as self = 
     (* MEMBERS *)
   
     val n = 
       (* begin constructor *)
	self#init;
 	  ...;
       (* end constructor *)
       name
   
     (* METHODS *)
     method init =
     ... 
   end

-- 
Vyskocil Vladimir
vvyskoci@sophia.inria.fr
http://www.inria.fr/safir/SAFIR/Vladimir.html