getting really weird: Player39 in PointerFinder

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Tue Jan 1 21:16:08 UTC 2002


Karl --

Not exactly (I know  that you know that Smalltalk instances are 
changed all the time via assignments to instance variables). A player 
is a kind of wrapper for Smalltalk objects that allows certain other 
behaviors to be instance specific (like instance local methods), and 
also allows some experimentation with a different way to think about 
object architectures.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 7:28 PM +0100 1/1/02, Karl Ramberg wrote:
>Ross Boylan wrote:
>>
>>  In tracking down the cause of grossly excessive copies of some objects in
>>  my image, I've found that some Player classes are holding onto them.
>>
>>  Can I just delete the classes?  What is the safe way to get rid of these
>>  things?
>
>Players are created  when Etoy scripting is used because Smalltalk don't
>allow changing of a instance.
>You can inspect the instance and send a delete message to it.
>
>Karl


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