On Jan 13, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Ben Coman wrote: > What is the purpose of the #name method in the system?
It was because in etoy you can give a name to anything…. I would love to remove. > How integral/important is this method and what are the dangers of overriding > it? On class I guess that it is dangerous > I am getting tired of auto creating accessors and getting a #name1 method due > to a clash that I happened to very commonly have 'name' as an instance > variable. I have so far been changing my 'name' instance variables to > 'myName' to avoid the clash because I am not comfortable with my > understanding of how it ties in - but its time I tried harder to understand. Welcome to the club One day we will address it just that we have not enough fingers and brains. > > cheers -ben > >
