On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 2:05 PM, K K Subbu <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sunday 28 May 2017 02:09 PM, Ben Coman wrote: > >> Thanks Subbu. That is a useful insight for me, but is about the >> implementation. >> My query was more about senders of basicNew, so is still open if you >> have an opinion there, or anyone else. >> > > It is just a private primitive for creating new instances. I don't think > there is any restriction in the language that it should only be sent only > from class-side methods. Only methods which are part of language > implementation will send this selector and it so happens that most callers > fall on the class side. You will also find instance side methods > (operators) in non-trivial basic types like Colors or DateAndTime sending > #basicNew. > > Regards .. Subbu > > Cool. Sounds like I was being over-eager then. cheers -ben
