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Smalltalk Complete Course / Reflection & Dynamic Behavior

become:

Learn become: in Smalltalk with a construct-specific explanation, a unique example, a practical boundary, and a mastery check.

12 min read • Advanced

become: is an atomic Smalltalk topic inside Reflection & Dynamic Behavior. The example below uses the actual construct named by the lesson rather than a generic placeholder.

Focus on what become: changes: the input, binding, control path, object state, collection, runtime effect, or language contract. Then alter one value and verify that the behavior changes for a reason specific to this feature.

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smalltalk-07-10-become.st
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| a b | a := Array with: 1. b := Array with: 2. a become: b.
Edge case / engineering note

Change the key input in this Smalltalk example and predict the result first; the named construct should be the reason the behavior changes.

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