Constructors in cases of inheritance (Squeak)

Question

I have a class A which B inherits from. The inheritance includes a bunch of parameters, and they should all be initialized to some default values in both cases (whether we create an A object or a B object). I decided to put the initialization into the constructor of A, since the creation of B should create an A first. However, this doesn't seem to be happening automatically, and I was unable to figure out how to call the super constructor manually. Can some one help me out?

Answer 1

You already found the solution, but here are some more notes that might help you to understand your question better:

• super is similar to self, they both represent the receiver of the message.
• self starts the lookup of the following message in the receiver of the message.
• super starts the lookup of the following message in the superclass where the implementing method is defined in.
• self and super are not messages but implicit variables, therefor you cannot find them in the message finder.

Answer 2

OK never mind... You use the word super. I guess that explains why there's no list of classes that define it in the method finder.