"Castings" are aliens in the Smalltalk world, although there is a #become*: method family, I would discourage you from using it as an alternative unless you really need to do it.
If your use case is that concrete, I'd do something like: `ILHTMLBuilderElement fromXMLElement: anXMLElement` Then all subclasses of `ILHTMLBuilderElement` will know what to look and what to omit from the `XMLElement` parameter. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo 2018-03-02 17:08 GMT-03:00 Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl>: > Siemen Baader <siemenbaa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What else could I do, apart from removing the element from its tree, >> creating a new (subclass) instance and then putting this element in place >> of the old one? Some #perform or `super` magic..? > > Use composition? Generate accessing code where necessary. > Is this very performance critical code? > > Stephan > > >
