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Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns – Chapter 3 – Behavior – Methods
Today I had to spend time taking care of passport stuff for my upcoming honeymoon, so I only got to read a handful of pages. I’ll post my notes nonetheless. Methods are more important that state...
View ArticleSmalltalk Best Practice Patterns: Constructor Method
Sadly reading is going slower than expected due to being so busy with various things in life. Oh well, just a single pattern today. Constructor Method How do you represent instantiation? In addition to...
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How do you set instance variables from a constructor method? The fundamental issue here is that often validation is bypassed at construction time, for whatever reason. So one’s accessor may look...
View ArticleShortcut Constructor Method & Conversion
I left my book and notes at work yesterday, hence the late post. Shortcut Constructor Method What is the external interface for creating a new object when a Constructor Method is too wordy? Sometimes...
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