+1
it would be really useful to have a refactoring “make creator with instance
vars”, to allow you to pick inst vars and do something like:
Blah class>>children: aCollection
^ self basicNew
initializeChildren: aCollection;
yourself
Blah>>initializeChildren: aCollection
children := aCollection.
self initialize.
that would solve all the problem and would be also a nice way to promote a
convention on how to do the creation properly :)
Esteban
On 09 Aug 2014, at 16:29, Tim Mackinnon <[email protected]> wrote:
> The more I use Pharo again - the more it strikes me how tedious it is to have
> to flip between instance and class side definitions.
>
> For example - if I create a new class with an instance variable, and then in
> my class constructor method decide that it would be handy to do:
>
> ^self new children: items; yourself
>
> But I don’t yet have the #children: method - if I select the create accessors
> refactoring (while still looking at my class method) - it does nothing
> because I have an instance variable not a class variable. So I have to switch
> to the instance side, to use this refactoring and then flip back to writing
> my class method.
>
> This is really tedious - we really should find a better way to do this, as it
> eats away at your programming flow. It’s not the language - its the tools…
>
> Tim
