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I - Inheritance
The Objects in
Squeak are organized as instances of
Classes that are contained
in other Classes. A Class A that is contained in a Class B in Squeak has
access to the Methods of the Class B. Thus an object of kind A is said to
inherit - the methods from - the
objects it is contained in. And inheritance is a
way to give Objects more capacities (access to methods) without having to write
special code. (The hierachy button is very useful here: Go to TextMorph -
Cmd-b - and push the hierarchy button to see a fairly deeply nested morph in
context.)