[squeak-dev] [bug] 0007770: cascading does ont work with super

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 17:27:27 UTC 2013


Well, I really really don't _ever_ want to see something like this:

    foo bar baz: super

But that's just me, maybe. Maybe I should imagine super as being a
transparent proxy for self, with custom lookup.

frank

On 19 June 2013 17:55, Nicolas Cellier
<nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> As long as you don't write things like  (self send: #someMessage to: super),
> there's not much possible confusion ;)
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> Nicolas
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> 2013/6/19 Vaidotas Didžbalis <vaidasd at gmail.com>
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>> > But, to my horror, "a := super" is valid syntax!
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>> from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk): "...  true,
>> false, nil, self, super, and thisContext. These are actually called
>> pseudo-variables, identifiers that follow the rules for variable
>> identifiers but denote bindings that the programmer cannot change.".
>> My understanding that a := super is valid.
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