On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 12:42:11 +0100 Holger Hans Peter Freyther <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > OrderedCollection := OrderedCollection new. > OrderedCollection new. > > triggers a infinite loop because an instance now has the name of a class and > has hidden the class... Should GST do somethig to protect against this? really, a loop? heh ... fun! But it looks like to be more a problem of error handling than with the shadowing of the class. st> OrderedCollection := OrderedCollection new OrderedCollection () st> OrderedCollection new Object: OrderedCollection new: 16 "<0x7f844fd6c140>" error: did not understand #new MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (Object: OrderedCollection new: 16 "<0x7f844fd6c140>" error: did not understand #new MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (Object: OrderedCollection new: 16 "<0x7f844fd6c140>" error: did not understand #new MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (Object: OrderedCollection new: 16 "<0x7f844fd6c140>" error: did not understand #new stefan@g128 ~ % gst GNU Smalltalk ready st> [ OrderedCollection := OrderedCollection new. OrderedCollection new. OrderedCollection inspect ] on: MessageNotUnderstood do: [ :ex | 'neener' printNl ] 'neener' 'neener' st> OrderedCollection inspect An instance of OrderedCollection firstIndex: 8 lastIndex: 7 contents: [ ] OrderedCollection () So I vote "no". Protection prevents Learning :-) s. _______________________________________________ help-smalltalk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-smalltalk
