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Re:Pharo 11 by AllegedAlec on Thursday May 11, 2023 @12:18PM (#35904366)
Until I watched this I never understood class definitions in Pharo. His "we tell the TestClass to create a subclass of itself" blew my mind.
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Re:Pharo 11 by pdntspa on Thursday May 11, 2023 @10:52PM (#35911336)
What's the usefulness of that?
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Re:Pharo 11 by AllegedAlec on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:15AM (#35914194)
The congruence with the rest of the language. It makes it so that creating a new class isn't declarative, but also just another message sent to the ecosystem of objects.
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