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The initial value and sequence expressions for an instance of
the class are evaluated in an environment that comprises
- the environment of the class*/name expression;
- all internal instance variables and initialization variables of
the class declaration;
- this-variable (usually this, bound to the object
itself); and
- super-init-variable (usually super-init, bound to
an initialization procedure for the superclass).
The initial value and sequence expressions are evaluated each
time an object of the class is created. The expressions are evaluated
in the order in which they occur in the class*/name expression
(across clauses and including sequence clauses).
Before an initial value expression has been evaluated, the value of
the corresponding instance variable is initialized to undefined
(see section 4.1). Because all of the instance variables have
mutually-recursive scopes, the undefined value of an instance
variable can be exposed. The initialization process is described in
more detail in section 6.4.
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