[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Collections-mt.851.mcz

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Wed Sep 4 20:37:52 UTC 2019



> On 2019-09-04, at 12:58 PM, Thiede, Christoph <Christoph.Thiede at student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de> wrote:
> 
> Thank you :)
> 
> A very minor question: Would you favor [self basicNew] over [super new]? It will work completely equivalently, but what is the better style?

^super new

`self basicNew` will not always work equivalently. And I can almost guarantee it will always do the wrong thing just when you feel sure it is doing the right thing. And you will suffer Debugging Hell.


tim
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