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From: matheny@Unisyn.COM (John Matheny)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: invisible class variables
Message-ID: <406@unisyn.COM>
Date: 18 Oct 88 17:17:24 GMT
References: <11188@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Reply-To: matheny@Unisyn.COM (John Matheny)
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In article <11188@cgl.ucsf.EDU> pett@socrates.ucsf.edu (Eric Pettersen%CGL) writes:
>... There is no clean way to access the class variables of a
>superclass while a subclass is being defined.

Unfortunately, "super" is not defined while defining a subclass.  A
kludge I have used is to name explicitly the class that the variable
is in instead of using "super".  So, to access "Foo" in the parent
class "ParentClass" you can use "/Foo ParentClass send".
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