Adding and removing methods

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Tue Mar 16 22:09:08 UTC 2004


Yes. However, please note that starting with Squeak 3.7a Behaviour>>new
does just exactly this and this particular example is no longer a good
example of a custom new method.  At least not one that you would any
longer need to actually use.

Ken

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:01, Brian Murphy-Dye wrote:
> Jules,
> 
> As Lex states, it isn't an error to override new. The warning is just a 
> caution that improperly overriding it may prevent creations of new 
> instances of that class.
> 
> A common reason to override new is to run an initialization routine 
> after instance creation:
> new
>      ^ self basicNew initialize
> 
> Brian.

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