On 25 Feb 2016, at 13:34, Cl��ment Bera <bera.clement@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

when redefining new you don't have to use super:

BlElement class>>new
    ^ self basicNew 

        basicSpace: BlUniverse default runningSpace;

        initialize;

        yourself

IMO that's a better practice that redefining basicNew.

Usually basicNew is only redefined when you cannot instantiate the objects using the normal API because it is not supported by the runtime (SmallInteger, Context, etc.)

2016-02-25 12:33 GMT+01:00 Alain Plantec via Pharo-dev <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>:

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From: Alain Plantec <alain.plantec@yahoo.com>
To: Pharo Development List <pharo-dev@lists.pharo.org>
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 12:37:59 +0100
Subject: Re: [Pharo-dev] [bloc] why redefining new is not enough?

> On 25 f��vr. 2016, at 11:49, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> this is bad��� redefining basicNew should not be done, never, never, never.
why ?

> that���s why we have new and basicNew :)

the space may be needed during #initialize.
this is why the initialization of the space is done in
basicNew.
But ok, we will fix that.
Thanks
Alain

>
> Esteban
>
>> On 25 Feb 2016, at 09:52, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
>>
>> BlElement class>>basicNew
>>   "Redefined to set the space of the element"
>>
>>   ^ super basicNew basicSpace: BlUniverse default runningSpace
>>
>> why redefining new is not enough?
>>
>> Ok now back to the mooc videos :(
>>
>>
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