On Dec 3, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:

> I'm not sure that forbidding new: is a good idea. In Smalltalk it is rare to 
> forbid such methods. 

"If an instance created by sending the #new method ... would cause an error, a 
common practice is to override the behavior of #new so that it fails." 
Skublics, Klimas, & Thomas, Smalltalk with Style, p. 14 (Prentice Hall, 1996).

James Foster
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