One of the differences between Smalltalk and most of the systems that have come after it is that Smalltalk is completely live. "halt" is cool because it shows us how much more alive Smalltalk is than other systems. You can put "self halt" in some code when you don't know what it is supposed to do and then write the code knowing the context it is executing in. I tend not to use "self halt" for this, but instead "self error: 'write me'" because sometimes I don't find the spot for a few days and it is nice to have the error message to remind me what I was supposed to do.
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