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From: becher@argosy.UUCP (Jonathan D. Becher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: need explanation of 'super class'
Keywords: super, class, meaning
Message-ID: <180@argosy.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 89 02:58:25 GMT
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Okay, I need some help.

Suppose I have two classes, Building and Shack, where Shack is derived from
Building. Both Building and Shack have class methods called size.

	Building class methodsFor: 'example'
	size
		^10

	Shack class methodsFor: 'example'
	size
		^5

Now, from within a instance method of Shack ...

	Shack methodsFor: 'test'
	tester
		Transcript show: self class size.	"prints 5"
		Transcript show: super class size.	"prints 5 also"

Why does the second one print 5 and not 10?

Jon Becher			argosy!becher@decwrl.dec.com
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