Re: [Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread stephane ducasse
Hi dennis two points: - aClass new returns an instance of that class - super represents the receiver of the message but the lookup of the method in the superclass of the class that contains the super call. Once the method is found it is applied to the original receiver. So now Monster cla

RE: [Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread Ron Teitelbaum
Hi Dennis, I don't think I've seen you on this list so welcome! I think your question is a very good one. I read the other responses you received and they are very good. I thought I'd give you a practical example of what is called a factory pattern to explain why this is so important and how it

Re: [Newbies] Where to ask the questions,

2006-10-13 Thread Yoshiki Ohshima
Offray, > I'm wondering where to ask the questions about Squeak. Long time ago, I > was asking on squeakland, but after a time asking about Kedama I found > that, some questions get more attention on Squeak Beginners. Recently I > have being asking about accented characters and "hipertext" in

Re: [Newbies] Where to ask the questions,

2006-10-13 Thread Todd Blanchard
I'd start with newbies (here) and if you don't get any answer, move up to squeak-dev I don't know much about BookMorph myself. On Oct 11, 2006, at 5:43 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering where to ask the questions about Squeak. Long time ago, I was asking on sq

[Newbies] Where to ask the questions,

2006-10-13 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi all, I'm wondering where to ask the questions about Squeak. Long time ago, I was asking on squeakland, but after a time asking about Kedama I found that, some questions get more attention on Squeak Beginners. Recently I have being asking about accented characters and "hipertext" in Bookmorp

Re: [Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread stephane ducasse
On 13 oct. 06, at 16:22, Lukas Renggli wrote: Any points to clarify my confusion would be greatly appreciated. This is an interesting question that is often asked at exams ;-) :-) Dennis who is your prof :) Stef ___ Beginners mailing list Beginne

Re: [Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread Mathieu
dennis petrocelli a écrit : > Greetings smalltalkers, > > I'm a newbie trying to get my head around inheritance. I'm puzzled by > the following example. It seems to do what I mean, but not what I type > ;) This is a good thing, but I'd get further if I understood the > semantics a bit better.

Re: [Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread Lukas Renggli
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

[Newbies] Question about inheritance

2006-10-13 Thread dennis petrocelli
Greetings smalltalkers,   I'm a newbie trying to get my head around inheritance.  I'm puzzled by the following example.  It seems to do what I mean, but not what I type ;)  This is a good thing, but I'd get further if I understood the semantics a bit better.   from http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac