Simple Program Won't Run

[Gary Highberger]

Hi Everybody,

Obviously what programming skills I have are other than Oops :-)

What Oops rule(s) does the following program, autoRun,st, break? Why is MyA
written as #MyA in the error message? Why doesn't the compiler understand
MyA? It's defined in the immediately preceding line.

Gary Highberger

cat autoRun.st
MyA := Array new: 10
MyA at: 1 put: 'one'
3 printNl
'hello world' printNl

$ gst autoRun.st
Object: 10 error: did not understand #MyA
MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
SmallInteger(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #MyA (SysExcept.st:1448)
UndefinedObject>>executeStatements (autoRun.st:1)
3
'hello world'
$