[Newbies] Determining the sender in a method

[Rob Rothwell]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn at stonehenge.com>
wrote:

> Rob> Or would doing this just be bad form?
>
> Yes.  While you *can* do a lot of magic like this, it's probably
> best if you avoid it for now.  A typical pattern is to pass self:
>
>
> MyObject>>doSomething
>  ^self otherClass makeSomethingOn: self.


Thanks...this is almost what I did, lacking the "bad form" MethodContext
introspecting methods you described.  Although I admit I hardwired it as
below, but will rectify that soon enough!

Also note: don't hardwire a helper class name in your methods.  Use
> a method call to get it, so you'd say:
>
> MyObject>>otherClass
>  ^TheOtherClass
>
> If you hardwire it, it'll make your class much harder to subclass.


Which is what I am doing (subclassing).  This "trivial" example shows I am
making progress but still somewhat bound by the laws of non-object
programming!

Thanks again,

Rob
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