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James Robertson

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Why being able to add methods is good

Posted: Jan 7, 2004 6:57 AM

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Original Post: Why being able to add methods is good Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.	Latest Agile Buzz Posts Latest Agile Buzz Posts by James Robertson Latest Posts From Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants

Charles Miller finds seven different StringUtil classes in his Java project - as opposed to the one String class in my Smalltalk project. Why? Because I can directly extend String. Here's the part I find interesting:

Today, I found myself wanting to do a pretty basic String operation that wasn't on the main class, so I sent IDEA ooff hunting and there were seven classes in my Classpath called either StringUtil or StringUtils, all of them from different projects.

So I wrote the method myself. Finding the one I should have been using amongst that lot was just too much effort :)

Just one more reason why there tends to be less duplication in Smalltalk; things go where they belong...

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