Where does "class new" come from?

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Tue May 16 17:44:56 UTC 2006


Hi Torsten,

on Tue, 16 May 2006 19:32:40 +0200, you  
<moehl at akaflieg.extern.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> this might be a stupid question but where does the "new" class method  
> come
> from for object instantiation because I could find it neither in Object
> nor in ProtoObject.

No, this is not a stupid question.

> I just wanted to find out where "initialize" is called
> and what else might be done at object creation but now I'm completely
> baffled.

In pre-Traits images this can bee seen with (Object class lookupSelector:  
#new) who, nowadays this can be seen with (Object class lookupSelector:  
#new) methodClass -> (Object class lookupSelector: #new) selector.

/Klaus

> Cheers, Torsten





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