Squeak and Runtime Code Evolution

Daniel Joyce daniel.a.joyce at worldnet.att.net
Thu Feb 21 22:50:58 UTC 2002


On Thursday 21 February 2002 09:08 am, you wrote:
> 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
>

	Well, when you change the color of a morph using say an inspector to send 
it a color: message with a new Color instance, you are in essence ripping 
code away ( the old Color instance ) and installing new code on a running 
system.

	Now, with SmallTalks flexible execution environment, and the myriad 
options for inspection, etc, it becomes possible to handle even more 
complicated cases.

	Daniel Joyce



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