Dec. 4, 2009
1:12 a.m.
On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
I'm not sure that forbidding new: is a good idea. In Smalltalk it is rare to forbid such methods.
"If an instance created by sending the #new method ... would cause an error, a common practice is to override the behavior of #new so that it fails." Skublics, Klimas, & Thomas, Smalltalk with Style, p. 14 (Prentice Hall, 1996). James Foster