[squeak-dev] Overrides. Evil. Need to do something with it.

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Wed May 5 15:41:25 UTC 2010


On 05.05.2010, at 08:34, Michael Haupt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>> Overrides are evil, period.
> 
> question mark.
> 
> Imagine some class being loaded that right- and joyfully overrides a
> method whose implementation solely consists of sending
> #subclassResponsibility to self.

If something is declared as subclassResponsibility then you are supposed to implement the same method in a subclass, not patch the method itself. Patching is evil.


- Bert -





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