On 15 Apr 2003 14:55:27 +0200, Cees de Groot <cg at cdegroot.com> wrote:

> I've been wondering about this myself. Everywhere I look, I see 'super
> new initialize', while I think that 'self basicNew initialize' really is
> a cleaner way.

In general, I try and avoid calling #basic... methods from my code, unless
I really have to. The purpose of #basic... methods is so that subclasses
should not override them, so subclasses can, in certain situations, ignore
superclass protocol and do things a certain way.

To put it simply, I don't use #basicNew (unless I have to) for the same
reason I don't access Arrays using #basicAt: (unless I have to) -- it seems
like a bad practice.

Later,
Jon

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