ie, is it possible in the super class init block g...

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[Karlo Lozovina]

ie, is it possible in the super class init block get access to values that the child class has overriden?

[Hanno]

The answer to that particular question is no. But you can simply make the property a constructor param in the abstract superclass instead of an abstract property. Possible for your use case?

[Karlo Lozovina]

thanks for the into! yeah, I might go with a constructor param for now, or maybe just a plain function to init the class if the number of parameters get's large...

[Hanno]

Instead of init Blocks it is often better to not span a hierarchy if not necessary and make constructors private and use a factory. Especially when its sth like logging which is unrelated to the construction of the instance itself