Initial Values

 

The initial value expressions, initialization procedure expression, and instance variable name handling procedure expression are all evaluated in a special environment. This environment includes:

• the environment of the class definition
• all instance variables and initialization variables of this class
• the variable this, which is bound to the object itself  
• each superclass-name, bound to the value of the corresponding superclass-expression
• superclass-name-init for each superclass-name, bound to an initialization procedure for the corresponding superclass

The initial value expressions are evaluated at the time that an object is created. They are evaluated in the order in which they are defined (even across clauses and including sequence clauses).