Squeaking trouble

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Mon Nov 14 16:30:19 UTC 2005


Il giorno lun, 14/11/2005 alle 11.16 -0500, Donald Major ha scritto:
> Well, I can say the problem is happening with my image -- at least in
> this case.  Usually when I get this, if I can't interrupt it, I can
> close the window and the runaway process finally gets a clue and Squeak
> shutsdown without further ado.  This time, I had to go back and find the
>  Squeak program in my OS process table and zap it there.  Something
> REALLY doesn't like using an instanced abstract class.

It isn't really a problem of using an abstract class. It's just an
infinite recursion problem: #printString sends #size, which sends #do:,
which sends #size etc, etc.

	Giovanni




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