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Reputation: 570

Smalltalk / Squeak message handling method

A pretty short question - how is the message handling method named (the first method that is called on message passing), and in which class it is defined?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 188

Answers (1)

Oak
Oak

Reputation: 26868

Sending a message to an object is handled by the VM, you won't find the specific method that handles it.

However, ContextPart>>#send:to:with:super: contains an implementation that should be identical to how the VM is implemented. In particular, it calls Behavior>>#lookupSelector:, where you can see the code that climbs up the inheritance hierarchy.

Upvotes: 5

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