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From: alan@rnms1.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy(0000))
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Variable scoping in Smalltalk
Keywords: super
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Date: 28 Mar 89 17:38:49 GMT
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In article <1721@scubed.UUCP< warner@s3snorkel.UUCP (Ken Warner) writes:
<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.

Try "self superclass." (Or is it "self class superclass"?)


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