On 17-May-06, at 9:36 AM, Duncan Mak wrote:


>
> I was thinking of using become: to implement something like this,  
> yeah.
You can't do that. Smallintegers cannot be become:'d. Other numbers  
shouldn't be. A number is a number - a manifest object that is what  
it is.  You *cannot* increment a number. There is nothing you can do  
to '3' to make it anything but '3'.

I fear you're still stuck in the C rape-and-pillage mindset where you  
get to plunder memory locations and have your wicked way with them  
like some rampaging Assyrian horde-member. It just isn't how  
Smalltalk works, so try to put that aside.


tim
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