[Newbies] Code critics - Overrides super method without calling it

Matthias Berth matthias.berth at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 20 13:12:15 UTC 2008


Hi,

The idea is that you should _maybe_ give the superclasses of Strand a
chance to execute their method.
In some situations this is really necessary, or just a good way to
avoid code duplication.

HTH

Matthias

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:47 PM, stan shepherd <squeak414 at free.fr> wrote:
>
> Hi, I get the possible bug 'Overrides super method without calling it' for
> things like:
>
> Strand>>size
>        ^ genes size
>
> I can't find an explanation of this, in case there is some nasty that I'm
> not aware of. It is not listed at:
>
> http://st-www.cs.uiuc.edu/users/brant/Refactory/LintChecks.html
>
> Is there a more complete list of code critics messages?
>
> Are there cases other than 'Overrides a "special" message' to look out for?
>
> Thanks,   ...Stan
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