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
> 
> 


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