#new

Is new a reserved word?

it doesn't appear to make a very good variable name (in cuis) , things  
go out of scope, but I wondered why?

Keith

>>>>> "keith" == keith  <[hidden email]> writes:

keith> Is new a reserved word?

keith> it doesn't appear to make a very good variable name (in cuis) , things  go out
keith> of scope, but I wondered why?

new as an instance var?  Or #new as an accessor to an instance var
named new?

There shouldn't be any problem at all with new as an instance var.
Just don't create the same-named accessors, because they have a *lot*
of meaning.

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Smalltalk's six reserved words are nil, true, false, self, super, thisContext.

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:57 PM, keith <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Is new a reserved word?
>
> it doesn't appear to make a very good variable name (in cuis) , things go
> out of scope, but I wondered why?
>
> Keith
>
>

2010/3/11 Chris Muller <[hidden email]>:
By the way, Lukas reported in Pharo that they could be shadowed by
tempVars in closure Compiler.
They should better not.

Nicolas