Squeak and Runtime Code Evolution

Stephen Pair spair at advantive.com
Thu Feb 21 15:08:37 UTC 2002


You will probably get a MessageNotUnderstood exception.  Alternatively,
you can check for the existence of the code before attempting to use it.
You can also handle the MessageNotUnderstood in clever ways.

- Stephen

Huw Evans wrote:
> No evolutionary in that sense, evolutionary in the sense that 
> code is bound 
> into a running program and then at some later stage taken 
> away.  Other code 
> that is bound to it may break if the code is just ripped out 
> of the running 
> system.  I was wondering what squeak did in this case.  Do 
> you know of any 
> documentation for this, perhaps a paper?
> 
> Huw




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