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From: dbuck@superior.carleton.ca (Dave Buck)
Subject: Re: Smalltalk/2 article in JOOP
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In article <4b59if$r1n@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
Bytesmiths <bytesmiths@aol.com> wrote:
>Perhaps part of the interview should be conducted in front of a running
>image? That would separate the men from the boys!

I once had someone I was mentoring for send me an EMail asking about
proxies and using a nil superclass.  He had a class called JunkClass
which had a nil superclass and couldn't figure out how 'new' still
worked.  My reply:

   "The superclass of JunkClass class is Class so it inherits the
'new' behavior from Behavior".

Try digesting that one early in the morning before breakfast. :-)

David Buck
dbuck@ccs.carleton.ca

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