Constructor function name vote

[dmkozh]

Vote for the name of the Soroban constructor function name:

• __init
• __constructor
• __ctor
• __create
• __on_create

Every contract that needs to be initialized on creation will have to define this function.

Please respond in the thread simply with the name of the one you are voting for.

[Myestery]

__constructor looks okay

[KodeSage]

this would be __constructor

[tupui]

__init 😃 (Could we use a DAO for the vote?)

[villanuevaquelin]

__constructor it's OK

[aolieman]

__init, for initialization logic

[ShinySyntax]

__constructor it's OK

[Olawale-22]

__create

[gip]

__init

[robertDurst]

__init

[silence48]

I'm gonna vote for __constructor

[mdb1710]

_init

[faytey]

__constructor

[brianebert]

__constructor

[esteblock]

__constructor
Its also called like that in Solidity.

[tolgayayci]

__constructor

[overcat]

In some languages, a constructor is more involved in the creation and memory allocation of an object, while an init method focuses more on setting up the initial state of the object after it has been created.

[KevinEverywhere]

__constructor

[gidson5]

__contructor

[Ghostrayu]

__constructor feels right

[markuspluna]

__init is the industry standard, I don't see a reason to use a different name and confuse people

[dmkozh]

Would you mind which languages/frameworks you're referring to here? Solidity uses constructor() and I'm only aware of __init__ constructor method in Python (which, to be frank, has inspired my original proposal) out of a dozen popular languages (constructor is not used explicitly a lot, but that's what typically the name of the language concept is). I'm genuinely curious what else uses that name.

[AghastyGD]

__init short and looks better

[manny-uncharted]

__constructor looks okay

[koolamusic]

__init does it for me

[tupui]

Maybe a bit late, but why not __new? Since we are doing Rust. That would seem to follow more the language itself no?

[glanzz]

__constructor

[skaunov]

__init

[schierlm]

__init

[PaigeDAO]

__constructor looks okay

[dmkozh]

Thanks everyone for voting! I think we've had enough time to gather enough opinions. __constructor leads with 14 votes vs 9 votes for __init. I'll proceed with updating the CAP with __constructor name. While I'm relatively indifferent on the specific option to use, __constructor seems slightly beneficial thanks to consistency with Solidity, which is probably the most likely language that a smart contract developer would be familiar with. OTOH I'm pretty sure neither option can be discovered by the developers intuitively without looking at the docs due to the need to use __ prefix, so probably the name doesn't matter too much in the end.