[Q]Overriding "new"

Martin Drautzburg martin.drautzburg at web.de
Tue Mar 19 19:14:32 UTC 2002


What is the problem with overriding the Class method "new". Squeak
always warns me, and if I insist terrible things happen (low memory -
crash).

I was subclassing Array2D and I gave it a Class Method
        new
                ^ super width:3 height:3

which was obviously a bad idea, but why ?






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