Squeak programming question

Andres Valloud sqrmax at cvtci.com.ar
Mon Mar 22 21:31:29 UTC 1999


Hi.

Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:

>  The Digitalk Smalltalk programming style guide had an item titled: "Never
>  use an array where an object will do".
>
>  The basic idea is that if you've reached the point where you need to
>  communicate some sort of heterogeneous aggregation then its time to define
>  a new class of object. It may seem like a heavyweight approach but down
>  stream you will most likely be glad you used a new class. Maintainers of
>  your code will certainly appreciate it.

This is exactly why I thought of Clusters. I got really surprised 
when all I had
to do was to reimplement #doesNotUnderstand:...

Andres.
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  name="Cluster.st"
Content-Disposition: inline;
  filename="Cluster.st"

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