[comp.lang.smalltalk] smalltalk bug !?

claudio@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Claudio S. Nascimento) (01/31/91)

Suppose you define the following classes:

Test1:  with superclass Object
        and class variable X

Test2:  with superclass Object
        and class variable X


If for some reason, we change the superclass of Test2 to be
Test1, the system browser accepts. Shouldn't it give an error
since both classes have a class variable with same name ?

If not, why the system browser does not accept a subclass with
a class variable named the same as its superclass?




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