Michael Klein writes:

>What do people think about putting #new & #new: as class-side
>methods in Object so that newbies can figure this one out without
>having to be introduced to the "prime anomoly"?

It might work for most cases, but what about, for example, Metaclass?  
Metaclass overrides new from Behavior to prevent multiple metaclasses 
from being created.  If the new and new: messages were intercepted more 
"downstream" by Object class, then Metaclasses couldn't do special things 
like this...



     -- tim