Quote: Smalltalk's inheritance mechanism makes it difficult to find which method is executed, especially if the receiver's class is unknown

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Smalltalk's inheritance mechanism compounds the difficulty of learning through code inspection because it is difficult to understand which method actually gets executed in response to a message, especially because you often don't know the class of the receiver.

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