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		AllegedAlec on May 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pharo 11 Until I watched this I never understood class definitions in Pharo. His "we tell the TestClass to create a subclass of itself" blew my mind.

pdntspa on May 12, 2023 [–]

What's the usefulness of that?

AllegedAlec on May 12, 2023 | [–]

The congruence with the rest of the language. It makes it so that creating a new class isn't declarative, but also just another message sent to the ecosystem of objects.

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