User's Guide

Method categories

VisualAge and IBM Smalltalk support method categorization. Method categories have no effect on the operation of a class. They are a convenience provided to programmers and used to organize methods. Categories are entirely optional, but are turned on by default. For information on how customize the browsers so that method categories are not displayed, see Setting up Smalltalk images.

Some reasons why you might want to use categories are:

Of course, developers can use any categorization scheme they decide on.

Methods can have no category, in which case the category pane of a browser will display Not Categorized. Also, a method can belong to more than one category.


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