Hi Sean,
> ok i have another. lets take something that in a sql
> driven environment would be a lookup table.
> countries and states. what the the smalltalk way with this?
There are a number of patterns for this. Not all of them are strictly
object oriented. The easiest way to do this is to use
On Aug 2, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Benjamin Schroeder wrote:
On Aug 2, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Sean Allen wrote:
if I have class foo that is meant to only be descended from,
never instantiated directly. and it has method bar that needs
to made concrete by its descendents, what is the standard idiom for
On Aug 2, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Sean Allen wrote:
if I have class foo that is meant to only be descended from,
never instantiated directly. and it has method bar that needs
to made concrete by its descendents, what is the standard idiom for
that?
is there a specific error that should be thrown or
On Aug 2, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:08:51AM -0400, Sean Allen wrote:
you have an instance variable you only want to allow to set once,
never again ( in that fashion its like variable binding in erlang. )
what is the accepted smalltalk way to do this? i
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 12:08:51AM -0400, Sean Allen wrote:
> you have an instance variable you only want to allow to set once,
> never again ( in that fashion its like variable binding in erlang. )
> what is the accepted smalltalk way to do this? is there one?
ivar: aValue
ivar ifNotNil: [sel
On Aug 1, 2008, at 6:01 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
"Sean" == Sean Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> If I have beginner Smalltalk questions. What is the best forum
for
Sean> asking those?
Sean> Here even if they aren't squeak specific?
If you're learning Smalltalk by using Squeak
> "Sean" == Sean Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sean> If I have beginner Smalltalk questions. What is the best forum for
Sean> asking those?
Sean> Here even if they aren't squeak specific?
If you're learning Smalltalk by using Squeak, it makes sense to ask them here.
If you're not using S
