[elephant-devel] Re: recreate-instance-using-class

[Ian Eslick]

>
> i thought people might be doing all sorts of funny stuff in their
> initialize-instances -- additional initialization unrelated to  
> instance
> slots, validation, writing to logs etc.
> and they can be surprised that once they make class elephant- 
> persistent and
> it's loaded from DB, their stuff is not executed anymore.
>

Isn't is the other way around?   Wouldn't they be surprised when they  
get a log entry for user creation, or send a confirmation e-mail, not  
just for when a user was added, but for every time a cursor touched  
that object by pulling it out of the database?