>>>>> "Richard" == Richard A O'Keefe <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> writes:

Richard> Point is, ThingFactory>>new didn't make ThingFactories,
Richard> it made Things.  It was every bit as much unlike a "copy" method
Richard> as the ordinary use of #new.

Right, so it was more like a Class than like an instance of any class.
Still, "anObject new" didn't mean "anObject clone" or "anObject
species new".

OK, I think my research is complete.  Thanks for the feedback.

Apparently, as an aside, I'm told that VisualWorks experimented with
adding:

        Object>>new

        self species new

But that was later removed, apparently.  Ugh.  That hack just looks
trouble waiting to happen. :)

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