Mariano Wahlmann wrote:
> Hi, my name is Mariano Wahlmann, i'm using Squeak3.8 and I have a 
> questions about LineMorph class:
> 
> Why exists the new method as class method instead of having an 
> initialize method?. I ask this because if you want to extend this class, 
> you have to re-write new and initialize methods. Is this maybe a bug?.
> 
> Thanks

I think, it is a bug. The
    LineMorph class from:to:color:width:
should not refer directly to `PolygonMorph'. It disables the attempts to 
make subclasses of LineMorph.

I recommend you to use PolygonMorph directly (subclass it if you need). 
Under certain conditions, you could also use polygon-morph (or 
line-morph) instances directly, set up their properties and make them 
part of larger structures. Morphic has great (other may have different 
opinion) mechanisms for composing things. One only has to learn them. As 
comrade Lenin said, browse-browse-browse. :)

Other complex (?) systems (apart from Squeak) are not BROWSABLE. Here, 
in Squeak, you can "disassemble" anything you see to learn how it was 
done. Recently, I have wondered if there are any similar (non 
Smalltalkian) complex systems which could be tagged as browsable. 
(LA)TEX stuff is not browsable, my Gnome desktop (I am currently 
temporarily using) is not browsable. Gnome and (LA)TEX are also 
open-source, but there is little correspondence between what you see and 
the code. Yes, one could hire a detective which would reveal where in 
the hell is the source code of that little stranglet one sees in the 
top-right corner. In Squeak, the correspondence is tangible. That is its 
virtue.

Are there any browsable systems (in the same sense as Squeak) ?
-- 
Matej Košík