[squeak-dev] Object>>className

Levente Uzonyi leves at caesar.elte.hu
Fri Mar 24 18:36:50 UTC 2017


On Fri, 24 Mar 2017, Tobias Pape wrote:

>
>> On 24.03.2017, at 18:10, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> - doesn't provide much utility as it is effectively foo class name, and foo className saves one character.
>
> Law of Demeter.

Blindly applying such ideas will result in a huge mess. In this case 
#className and #name cause more trouble than benefit. Object should shadow 
as few accessors as possible.

Levente

>
> Best regards
> 	-Tobias


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