Shrinking

Pavel Krivanek squeak1 at continentalbrno.cz
Sun Aug 29 18:12:31 UTC 2004


There are quite often used classes in category 'Shrink-Helpers'. They must
be carefully removed from shrinked image in future. But it was much easier
to remove the current implementation and substitute it with empty class so
Squeak sources are still consistent.

When Smalltalk compiles source codes, it doesn't know real classes of
receivers so it doesn't know the set of tolerable messages too. Compiler
only checks if the system contains the symbol used in method source as a
message selector.

Pavel




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