Any points to clarify my confusion would be greatly appreciated.
This is an interesting question that is often asked at exams ;-) The first thing to notice is that 'super' references the receiver but changes the way the method it looked up, therefor self = super is always true. Furthermore self class = super class is true as well, since self and super both represent the receiver, again super just changes the place where the lookup of #class is started. "self class" and "super class" both answer the class of the receiver.
It seems to me that "super new" and "superclass new" should do the same thing.
Now to come to your example: "super new" starts the lookup of #new in the superclass, however the receiver of the message is unchanged and you get an instance of the receiving class. "superclass new" creates an instance of the superclass, as you would expect the receiver of the message #new is the superclass. Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://www.lukas-renggli.ch _______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
