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Smalltalk, Objects,
and Design
Chamond Liu
toExcel
San Jose New Yark Shanghai Smalltalk, Objects, and Design
Reprinted from the original 1996 edition with corrections:
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Printed in the United States of Ameties “My good friend, every profession requires
effort and devotion and practice.”
—advice to the young Perceval
[de Troyes 1190] Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
1 Objects 1
1d
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13
14
Ls
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1?
Objects 1
Examples of Smalltalk messages (telegrams) 5
Pitfall: the effect versus the return 6
Why objects matter 7
Recap: objects &
Exercise: warmup (the image) 9°
Commentary: perspectives on objects
2 Classes and inheritance 11
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2.6
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2.10
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Classes 11
The word “class” 13
Inheritance 13
Terminology 18
Exercise: hierarchies 21
Solution and discussion: Aggregation hierarchies 21
inheritance 22
Syraxes for inheritance 23
Example: inheritance in Smalltalk 24
ise: building aclass hierarchy 26
Commentary: what is object-oriented programming? 27
Commentary: other languages 29
Commentary: history 30 3 Smalltalk introduction 32
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3A
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3.6
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3B
3a
Elementary objects 32
Messages and their precedences 33
Pitfalls: basic Smalltalk gotchas 34
Examples 36
Exercise: a hypothetical method 37
Solution and discussion 38
Kinds of variables 39
Pitfall: variables # objects 40
Classes are objects 40
3.10 Control flow 42
3.11 Commentary: metackasses 43
4 Exercises—Foundations 44
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4A
45
Precautions 44
Finding things in Smallualk 46
Elements of Smalltalk 48
Smalltalk’s debugger 57
Provecations 59
5 Abstract classes 61
Exercise in object-oriented design 62
Solution and discussion 62
Pure virtual (subclassResponsibility) methods 64
Exercise: discovering pure virtuals 65
Solution and discussion 65
Ensuring no instances 65
Conerete behavior in abstract classes 67
Summary: methods in abstract classes 68
6 Containers and other indispensable ideas 69
6.1
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6.6
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Heterogeneity and hamogencity 70
Exercise: heterogencity and homogencity 71
Exercise: dictionaries 72
Exercise: identity dictionaries 75
Overriding equality 75
Excreise: anomaly of the disappearing clement 76
Exercise: excursion into Streams 77
6.10 Containers versus aggregations 78
G.11 Shallow and deep copying 79 6.12 Commentai
value and reference semantics 80
6.13 Commentary: containers in C++ 81
7 CRCeards 82
Design exercise 83
Solution and discussion 84
Common questions and answers 87
Commentary: analysis, design, and implementation 88
8 Exercises—Implementing a design 91
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Creare the classes 91
Atestease 91
Write “new” methods 92
Write instance methods 92
‘Test your solution 93
Engineering discipline 94
A minor variation 94
“Private” methods 94
Commentary: getters and setters 95
8.10 Summary %
9 When (not) to inherit 97
Historical background 97
Inverting hierarchies 98
Buy or inherit? 99
Exercise 100
Solution and discussion 100
Conclusions 102
Commentary: multiple inheritance 103
10 Use cases and dynamic relationships 105
10.1
10.2
10.3
0.4
10.5
10.6
10.7
Interaction diagrams 105
Exercise 108
Solution and discussion 109
Use cases and interaction diagrams in analysis and design 110
Limitations 112
Summary 113
Commentary: historical note 114
HL The venerable model-view-controller 115
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Model-view-controller example 115
Exercise 118,
How MVC works 119 114 Exercise: the original dependency mechanism 121
1.5 MVC: benefits and difficulties 122
11.6 What's become of MVC? 124
12 Building windows 127
12.1 What you need to know about Motif 128
12.2 Widget resources 130
123. Excursion: pool dictionaries 131
124 Exercise: afi window 133
12.5 Exercise: a window for the account balance 134
12.6 Exercise: a window far the sransaction log 135
12.7 Exercise: a window containing both widgets 136
12.8 Assessment: building windows 136
12,9 Callbacks and events 137
12.10 Preparation 138
12.11 Exercise: mouse event handling 138
12.12 Challenging exereise: dynamic updates 139
12.13 Summary 140
13 Designing the UI: a brief tour 142
131 User interfaces 142
13.2 Elementary examples 143
13.3 Coherent conceptual models 144
134 Metaphor 146
13.5 Magic 148
13.6 Exercise: design a user interface 151
13.7 Discussion of your results 152
13.8 Isomorphism 155
139 Summary 156
14 Polymorphism 158
14.1 Dynamic binding 158
14,2 Dynamic binding enables...polymorphism 159:
14,3 Aword on terminology 161
144 Exercise: polymorphism 162
14,5. Solutions and discussion 162
14.6 Exercise: Smalltalles Pless-ness 163
4.7 Solution 163
14.8) Summary tip 165
14,9 Commentary: performance 165
14.10 Commentary: Smalltalk, C++, and type-checking 166 the tomato in the mailbox 169
14,12 Commentary: multi-methods 170
15 Practicing polymorphism 173
15.1
15.2
5.3
15.4
15.5
15.6
Design exercise |: a shape editor 173
Solution and discussion 174
Design exercise II: undo and redo 176,
Solution and discussion 177
Impkmenting undo 179
Summary 180
16 How object-oriented languages work 181
16.1
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16.3
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16.8
Virtual machines 181
Method lookup 183
Memory management: a brief history of garbage collection 187
The irony of garbage collection 191
Commentary: why not garbage collect C++? 192
Smalltalk deviates from uniformity 193
Exercises 195
Summary 197
17 Tivo kinds of inheritance 198
Beauty and the beast 198
Why types matter: polymorphism 200
Commentary: an aside on subsets 201
Commentary: what docs “consistency” mean? 201
Consistency and Smallealk 207
Exercise: Smalltall’s container “types” 208
Solution and discussion 208
Exercise: Smalltalk’s container “classes” 210
Solution and discussion 210
17.10 Summary 211
17.11 Commentary: standardizing Smalltalk 212
18 Design patterns 213
18.1
18.2
18.3
184
18.5
18.6
Notation 214
Smart container (aka collection-worker) 215.
Reification 216
Command 217
Factory method 219
Objects from records 220 Proxies and ghosts, 1 224
Proxies and ghosts, Il 226
Dependency 228
Solitaire (aka singleton) 230
Duet (aka pas de deux, double dispatch) 231
Lawyer (aka object handler) 233
13 Compesite 235
14 Visitor 236
13 Conclusion 239
18.16 Commentary: history 240
19. Frameworks (one bearty example) 242
19.1 Problems 243
Mater 244
Searching (fikering) 248
Updating 251
Summary 252
Commentary: varieties of brokers 254
Commentary: buying outdoes inheriting (sometimes) 255
20 Metaclasses 257
20.1 Facts about metaclasics 257
20.2 Inheritance 258
20.3 Method new 259
204 ‘The full picture 260
20.5 Recapitulation 262
20,6 Exercises 263
21 Why developing software is still hard 264
21.1 Misconceptions 264
21.2 Where projects go awry: borders 267
21.3. Characteristics of succesful projects 269
21.4 An optimistic conclusion 272
Appendix: Some differences between dialects 275
References 277
Index 283 Acknowledgments
‘This book derives from two activities—developing and teaching courses, and develop-
ing software. But the real sources are the people I've encountered along the way. Many
of them have profoundly shaped my thinking about software—Dave Collins, Peter
Deutsch, Amarjcet Garewal, Steve Goetze, Ralph Johnson, Doug Lea, Bertrand
Meyer, Tom Morgan, Dave Thomas, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock, and Kirk Wolf—and
many others have left'smaller but chaotically important impressions: Bruce Anderson,
Marilyn Bates, Katherine Betz, Desmond D'Souza, Phil Hartley, Richard Helm, Felix
Laura, and John Vlissides. From here the list is too long to enumerate, for it includes
individuals whom I sweated over their businesses’ real object-oriented design and.
programming problems, plus all the students and instructors through the years from
whom I learned about teaching objects and Smalltalk and C++.
1 am grateful co the many people who were kind enough to share their opinions on
draft manuscripts. Bruce Anderson assailed. hackneyed expressions and examples;
Kent Beck made me rethink my pedagogical approach; Katherine Betz streamlined
discussions; Michele Choate caught stylistic slips; Eric Clayberg taught me new things:
about Smalltalk; Dave Collins, a closet historian, set chronologies straight; Ken Coo-
per pointed out awkward transitions; Lisa Goetze suggested improvernents to the exer-
cises; Steve Goetze was a sounding board for impetuous ideas and, sensitive to the
zeitgeist, warned me off gratuitous soapboxes; Ralph Johnson's enthusiasm and tact
kept me going when there was still no end in sight; Doug Lea urged technical respect
ability where there was none; Ruth Liu distinguished whar I actually said from what |
meant (0 say; ‘Tom Morgan flushed our structural and conceptual flaws; Larry Smith
was the conscience of the IBM Smalltalk product; Dave Thomas alerted me to trends
from the ANSI standardization