Hi listees,
I'm trying to find my Smalltalk accent, if you know what I mean.
In a project I have a class that's a subclass of Dictionary.
I created the following method to create a convenient way of accessing entries in the dictionary:
doesNotUnderstand: aSelector "for unknown selectors, see if we can find an environment variable and return that" ^ self at: aSelector asString ifAbsent: [ super doesNotUnderstand: aSelector ]
So my question is whether this is considered good style or not? It works quite well (except the doIt in a workspace pops up to say the selector is unknown).
This sort of thing is done in Ruby often, and I did find some examples in various classes in my image.
(Actually one example even defined the missing accessor on the fly - that's really showing off).
Thanks, Steve