Creating objects from the shell

[Stephen De Gabrielle]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

On Saturday, 15 March 2014, ardeujho <ardeujho at cd.pn> wrote:

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> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014, at 05:36 AM, Stephen De Gabrielle wrote:
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> 1. defining a method object doesn't seem to run it's code? (I don't get
> 'test' returned). Instead if I do 'lobby person5'.
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>  - Am I right that method objects only 'run' when called, and their slots
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> Yes, that's right. Your method, person3, is created and added as a slot.
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> 2. method objects don't get an outliner - because they only exist as
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> Right. You can get an object representing the method using mirrors:
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>   (reflect: lobby') at: 'person3'
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> Browse through the methods on that in an outliner.
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> This seems to indicate I can't create an object that can do some setup
> code when it is created? Am I missing a trick?
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> This is often done with a variant of 'copy'. Eg. on an object you'd do:
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>   myobject copyWithSomeEffect: 'blah'.
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