Art of Assembly Language, 1st Edition

14.12. 14.12 HLA's "_initialize_" and "_finalize_" Strings

Although HLA does not automatically call constructors and destructors associated with your classes, HLA does provide a mechanism whereby you can force HLA to automatically emit these calls: by using the _initialize_ and _finalize_ compile time string variables (i.e., val constants) HLA automatically declares in every procedure.

Whenever you write a procedure, iterator, or method, HLA automatically declares several local symbols in that routine. Two such symbols are _initialize_ and _finalize_. HLA declares these symbols as follows:

val
     _initialize_: string := "";
     _finalize_: string := "";

HLA emits the _initialize_ string as text at the very beginning of the routine's body, i.e., immediately ...