[Newbies] Re: Overriding methods

David Mitchell david.mitchell at gmail.com
Sun Jan 20 18:15:32 UTC 2008


I think he meant in VW:
new
^super new initialize

On Jan 20, 2008 11:46 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Zulq> In VW, where initialize isn't called by default, I do this all the time:
> > Zulq> new
> > Zulq>   ^ self new initialize
> >
> > You mean "basicNew", unless you like infinite loops. :)
>
> No infinite loops, but bad enough: you call #initialize twice for
> every new object.
>
> Lukas
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