Silly question, but: what's the difference? I mean, I see that there's a difference behind the scenes, in that this suggestion involves calling a separate constructor that really does bless the object, and then does the login business etc. But from the point of view of the user, it's the same: you call some method (whether called "new" or "startup"), and either bounce to a different program, or get back an object blessed into MyPackage. After all, you are the one who so recently said to Abigail-II that if I call a method and get back something that quacks like an object, it's a constructor, so....

If this version makes the OO gods smile upon me, I'm happy to go with it, but I'm just curious. Several people seemed to react with horror to the idea of a constructor exiting the program, so IDG why it's not a horror to having a constructor-like thing exiting the program.