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From: khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: superclass of an object (was Re: Variable scoping in Smalltalk)
Message-ID: <479@parcplace.pplace.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 18:20:46 GMT
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<1721@scubed.UUCP>, by warner@s3snorkel.ARPA (Ken Warner):
-> Along the same lines, how does one find out the super-class so that one
-> can access the super class-pool variables without explicitly stateing
-> the name of the super class.  I recently had to do this and I couldn't
-> figure out how to do this without hard-wireing the name of the
-> super-class.
-> 
-> The message;
-> super class 
-> is the same as;
-> self class.
-> 
-> Ken Warner

Use:

	self class superclass

Mike Khaw
ParcPlace Systems Technical Support
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