Interesting...

Thierry

2018-05-22 14:18 GMT+02:00 Marcus Denker <[email protected]>:
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>
>> On 18 May 2018, at 10:39, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the #binding: API until now did not allow to shadow globals. But there is 
>> actually no reason to forbid that
>> (and it can actually be interesting, e.g. to compile code where one class 
>> ref is switched to another).
>>
>> The Pull Request does:
>>
>> - add comment to OCExtraBindingScope
>> - categorize tests
>> - change #lookupVar: to allow shadowing of Globals.
>> - change test to reflect the new behaviour
>>
>> This means you can do:
>>
>> result := Smalltalk compiler
>>               bindings: {(#Object -> Point)} asDictionary;
>>               evaluate: 'Object new'.
>>
>> https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1379
>>
>
> A second iteration now makes it work correctly for assignments:
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>         https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/1397
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> Smalltalk compiler
>         bindings: {(#test -> Point)} asDictionary;
>         evaluate: 'test := 42'.
>
>         Marcus
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>

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