On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:07:59 +1300, Michael van der Gulik
<squeakml at gulik.co.nz> wrote:

> Would it be possible to rename the primitive Object>>class to 
> Object>>basicClass, and then implement Object>>class as:

In many Smalltalks, you can't override #class. Squeak is one of those --
you can comment out the primitive call in Object >> #class, and everything
still works fine. The compiler short-circuits the message, and just answers
the class (or something like that).

Later,
Jon

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