Editing Self (programming language) (section)

=== Making new objects ===
Consider a slightly more complex example:

<syntaxhighlight lang="smalltalk">labelWidget copy label: 'Hello, World!'.</syntaxhighlight>

makes a copy of the "labelWidget" object with the copy message (no shortcut this time), then sends it a message to put "Hello, World" into the slot called "label". Now to do something with it:

<syntaxhighlight lang="smalltalk">(desktop activeWindow) draw: (labelWidget copy label: 'Hello, World!').</syntaxhighlight>

In this case the <code>(desktop activeWindow)</code> is performed first, returning the [[active window]] from the list of windows that the desktop object knows about. Next (read inner to outer, left to right) the code we examined earlier returns the labelWidget. Finally the widget is sent into the draw slot of the active window.