+1 it would be really useful to have a refactoring “make creator with instance vars”, to allow you to pick inst vars and do something like: Blah class>>children: aCollection ^ self basicNew initializeChildren: aCollection; yourself Blah>>initializeChildren: aCollection children := aCollection. self initialize. that would solve all the problem and would be also a nice way to promote a convention on how to do the creation properly :) Esteban On 09 Aug 2014, at 16:29, Tim Mackinnon <tim@testit.works> wrote:

The more I use Pharo again - the more it strikes me how tedious it is to have to flip between instance and class side definitions.

For example - if I create a new class with an instance variable, and then in my class constructor method decide that it would be handy to do:

^self new children: items; yourself

But I don’t yet have the #children: method - if I select the create accessors refactoring (while still looking at my class method) - it does nothing because I have an instance variable not a class variable. So I have to switch to the instance side, to use this refactoring and then flip back to writing my class method.

This is really tedious - we really should find a better way to do this, as it eats away at your programming flow. It’s not the language - its the tools…

Tim