Costas,
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but the value of an assignment
is the value of its right-hand side, so you could write:
self totalCount: (nextCount := self totalCount + 1)
I suggest you leave the setter to return self.
Regards,
Peter van Rooijen
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> I have an Integer instance variable accessed thru accessors. I was
> wondering if there is a pattern to increment/decrement these
> variables.
>
> I got into trouble doing the following:
>
> nextCount:= (self totalCount: self totalCount + 1.)
>
> MyClass>>totalCount
> ^totalCount.
>
> MyClass>>totalCount: anObject
> totalCount := anObject.
>
>
> My nextCount was being initialized to self instead of the totalCount.
> I fixed #totalCount: but I thought there must be a better pattern for
> this?
>
> Costas
>
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