Super reps a class, not an instance

[Darren New]

Thomas Gagne wrote:
> 2) references from within an instance to its superclass (however that is
> accomplished) are intended to access the superclass's methods/data as an
> instance not a class, aren't they? 

In Smalltalk,
  super message
is identical to
  self message
except that the method search starts at the superclass of the class
containing the call to "super" instead of starting at the class of "self".

That is, "super message" does exactly the same as "self message" if the
"message" routine is not defined in the class containing "super message" or
any of its descendants.

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