[Seaside-dev] basicNew

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Avi" == Avi Bryant <avi at dabbledb.com> writes:

Avi> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Randal L. Schwartz
Avi> <merlyn at stonehenge.com> wrote:

Avi> Change super to self in this method, and (given the rest of the code
Avi> in my example) you would have infinite recursion.
>> 
>> I didn't see that you had a local initialize.  If you had, then
>> *it* should have been the one to have super initialize, since the local
>> initialize is superceding it by extension.

Avi> And what would the rest of that method look like?  What would the
Avi> other methods look like?
Avi> This is a fairly intricate convention and it doesn't make sense to
Avi> look at an individual piece of it in isolation.  If you're arguing
Avi> that the local initialize should call its super method, can you also
Avi> show what the rest of this (tiny) example would look like so I can
Avi> understand the entire control flow you're proposing?

  YourClass >> initialize
    super initialize.
    self initalizeWithX: 0 andY: 0.
    ^self. "implied if absent"

  YourClass >> initalizeWithX: x andY: y
    self x: x.
    self y: y.

There.  Now super is called in the right place... by the method that
is overriding it.

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