Hi Joe,
There are a number of different types of resource names. One of them is a
URI the other is URL (I=Indenter L=Locator). They are ways for locating and
identifying resources so that computers can find and work with them. I
would recommend googling a bit about URI and URL to understand
On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 3:02 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
>
>> On May 26, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Ron Teitelbaum [via Smalltalk] <[hidden
>> email]> wrote:
>>
>> One more question for you. I mentioned returning a newly created instance
>> or a specific class from a class side method. Can you name another
Have a look at the Hierarchy for the class Url
Notice the class method: #urlClassForScheme:
That should give you a better understanding of why url methods are in
FileDirectory.
For browser like methods see HTTPClient.
All the best,
Ron Teitelbaum
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From: Joseph Alotta
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 4:32 PM
> Extra credit: Why would you use a class variable? We know that an
instance variable is used to store data within the context of an instance.
Why would you want to store data in the context of a class?
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From: Joseph Alotta
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2016 3:02 PM
> On May 26, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Ron Teitelbaum [via Smalltalk] <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> One more question for you. I mentioned returning a newly created instance or
> a specific class from a class side method. Can you n
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[mailto:beginners-boun...@lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Joseph Alotta
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:47 PM
To: beginners@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: [Newbies] Re: FileDirectory
Hi Ron,
> Excellent. Remember that yo
Hi Joe,
Excellent. Remember that you should also look at the super classes for
methods. UnixFileDirectory is the instance of "FileDirectory default" but
it's also a subclass of FileDirectory so the methods you can call include
UnixFileDirectory and all the methods on the class hierarchy inclu
Have a look as well at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2184
What exactly do you want to do?
--Hannes
On 5/25/16, Joseph Alotta wrote:
> Hi Ron,
>
> I get an instance of UnixFileDirectory. And there are only 6 methods for
> UnixFileDirectory, none of them doing what I want.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joe
