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• What I said in P5P (Score:2)

  by merlyn (47)

  And not to be fighting this debate in multiple domains, but just for the record, here's my contribution to P5P:

  Here's what I said on an upcoming SysAdmin column (archived at my site [stonehenge.com], but not available yet per publisher embargo):

      And now, before I run out of space, let me touch on a hot-button for
      me.  The I<perltoot> manpage contains an archetypal C<new> routine
      that looks like:
  
        sub new {
          my $proto =

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  • Randal L. Schwartz
  • Stonehenge
  • Re:What I said in P5P (Score:2)

    by dws (341) on 2004.04.03 14:36 (#29880) Homepage Journal

    There was a similar discussion at one point in a corner of the Smalltalk community, but without the "it should make a copy" camp (since folks in the Smalltalk community were painfully aware of the differences between a deep and a shallow copy). As I recall, the concensus opinion was that it's easy enough to say

      newObject := someObject class new

    which is the equivalent of

      $newObject = (ref $someObject)->new

    The only instance-side new I could find when I went looking through an old VisualWorks image was in an addition (a filein) that was of dubious quality.

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    • •Re:What I said in P5P (Score:2)

      by merlyn (47)

      Actually, I believe the proper idiom in Smalltalk-80 (and thus Squeak) is: newObject := someObject species new because "species" returns "the class that can make something like this". "species" defaults to "class" for most classes, but check to see where it's defined (and thus overriding class): it's quite fascinating.

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      • Randal L. Schwartz
      • Stonehenge