> Yes please don't add that. This is not my intention. But I just discovered some bugs in my test because I instantiated a class that shouldn't be instantiated since it is abstract. If now we close our eyes and dream about a clean oo language. Will forbidding to instantiate an abstract class a wished feature?
Cheers, Alexandre > > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Stanislav Paskalev <ksh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> And it will also require modifying the Pharo by Example book that says >> that there's nothing wrong with instantiating abstract classes and >> that there is no *abstract* class marker in this sense, only abstract >> methods. >> >> So, why would try to convert Pharo to another language ? >> >> Stanislav Paskalev >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexan...@bergel.eu> >> wrote: >>> Hi! >>> >>> Just wondering. What about redefining new into: >>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>> Behavior>>new >>> "Answer a new initialized instance of the receiver (which is a >>> class) with no indexable variables. Fail if the class is indexable." >>> self isAbstractClass ifTrue: [ self error: 'An abstract class cannot >>> be instantiated' ]. >>> ^ self basicNew initialize >>> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >>> >>> This may break a lot of code however. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Alexandre >>> -- >>> _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: >>> Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu >>> ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pharo-project mailing list >>> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >>> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pharo-project mailing list >> Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr >> http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > -- > Lukas Renggli > www.lukas-renggli.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- _,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;: Alexandre Bergel http://www.bergel.eu ^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;._,.;:~^~:;. _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list Pharo-project@lists.gforge.inria.fr http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
