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Darren Hobbs wonders about the new method of class creation in VisualWorks (new since 1999 - which is to say, not that new :) ):
Hmm. VisualWorks has namespaces, which Smalltalk-80 does not, and they seem to have changed the way subclasses are defined. According to my copy of the purple book, a subclass is created by sending a class the message 'subclass:'. It should be possible to implement a version of subclass in the Creature class that adds the extra code.
However, VisualWorks wants me to send 'defineClass:' to a namespace. Problem with that is I want to change the way subclasses of a particular class are defined. If I change the code in the NameSpace class that will affect every class that is ever created thereafter.
How is this different than before? Prior to namespaces, if I modified the class creation method in class Behavior, I ran into the same issue. Nothing but the message recipient has changed, IMHO...
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