Klaus D. Witzel a écrit :
> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 14:20:59 +0200, David T. Lewis wrote:
> ...
>> Tests are good, but they do not detect this kind of problem.
> 
> Did you mean that in Smalltalk it is impossible to test, whether or not
> the compiler accepts a syntactical construct, like in " Compiler
> evaluate: 'put your test here' ".
> 
> If not, mind to explain what it is that cannot be detected.
> 
> /Klaus
> 
>> Dave
> 
> 
> 

This is beceause #ifNotNil: it's never call(compier inline it) so you do not know if the guy who
write #ifNotNil: implementation do it correctly.

I think it's why he say this.

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