** Eyesee-Core(AndrewHora.100) extends Dictionary to add class method #keys:values: Here is the outline... --- | dict | dict := Dictionary new. ... ^dict --- So if I have [ Dictionary subclass: LEKImportedEnterpriseArchitectPackage ] then [ x := LEKImportedEnterpriseArchitectPackage keys: { #a . #b } values: { 1 . 2 } ] ends up with 'x' containing a Dictionary rather than a LEKImportedEnterpriseArchitectPackage. Is that a defect or by design ?

I know there is some philosophy about avoiding subclassing collection classes so that they are used more "HAS A" rather than "IS A", but I'm not completely clear on that. My purpose is fairly simple providing a temporary staging point for records that I read in from a DBF file which I want to extract into my application format, to which I adding some convenience methods just to simply the import code. For example, there is no more logic in LEKImportedEnterpriseArchitectPackage besides getter methods like... --- packageID ^ self at: ‘Package_ID’ --- _primaryKey ^ self packageID --- cheers -ben _______________________________________________ Moose-dev mailing list Moose-dev(a)iam.unibe.ch https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/moose-dev