R: [PD] Re: [PD-announce] clr: externals in CLR assemblies

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Thomas Grill wrote:

> that's not completely correct: the PD-like style would be to register
> the class (that's the actual CLR assembly) when loading it the first
> time. There, a static Main function could be called registering the
> methods. When creating the CLR object, the constructor is called,
> registering inlets and outlets. This has the advantage that the objects
> would be more lightweight (method table is needed only once per class,
> not per instance) and that loading is faster.

Wait. Does Davide mean the thing that constructs the objects or the thing
that constructs the class itself? I seem to recall that in Java the latter
would be called "static initializers" and would be written like "static{
blah };", right? What's the CLR-equivalent of that?

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