On Oct 14, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Lukas Renggli 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).
>
> I once did something similar: you can remove #class from the 
> special-selectors collection in the compiler (class-var StdSelectors 
> in ParseNode). From then on all methods you compile actually send the 
> message #class and therefor it can also be overridden.

Oh, it's not in the VM - good.  Markus, does the new Compiler package 
still have this?  Can we get rid of it?

Avi