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I have seen #newFrom: in many places while working Smalltalk. I have never
assumed it would be a ‘similar’ object.
Also, what is the meaning of ‘similar’?
Since all objects have same ancestor, Object, one could argue any returned
object is similar.
Regards,
Reg
Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 23, 2020, at 10:09 AM, Sean P. DeNigris <s...@clipperadams.com> wrote:
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> Stéphane Ducasse wrote
>> I’m spotting real inconsistency in the specification and use of newFrom:
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> I recently thought something similar when working with ArrayedCollection. As
> you say, here is yet another inconsistency because it doesn't return a
> "similar object", but just copies the elements of the collection argument
> into an instance of itself with the same size. There is also
> ArrayedCollection class >> #withAll: which seems to do the same, but neither
> delegates to the other and they have different implementations.
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> Sean
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