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In Smalltalk, how do you invoke accessor methods in Class B from within Class A on an instance of class B?

For example, in class B I have #setValue and #getValue, but I can't use these in Class A. How do I accomplish this?

edit:

what I thought would work would be ClassBInstance setValue:1. or even ClassB ClassBInstance setValue:1. but neither do.

Solution

  • create an instance variable in class A say instanceVariableNames: 'binstance'

    in class A create the initialize method (instance side i.e. not the class side) and ensure the following code snippet is there super initialize. ... bInstance := ClassB new.

    now anywhere (i.e. in any method) in ClassA use bInstance setValue: 'whatever' or myVar := bInstance getValue

    BTW in Smalltalk conventionally set and get is not used ... its simply setValue is value: getValue is value note difference of the :

    hope it helps