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Randy Brukardt wrote:
>  (This presumes that Initialize isn't calling methods, but that is
> under the control of the programmer.)

I think this brings us around full circle. In an inheritance hierarchy
which requires that Initialize methods call their parent's Initialize,
there is not just one programmer. The author of the derived class may
not know whether the base's Initialize will be calling methods, possibly
with dispatching.