Hi Damien,
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Damien Pollet" <damien.pollet at gmail.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>; "Andrew Tween" <amtween at hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 2:08 PM
Subject: [BUG] in FT2Handle class >> deregister


> this method calls #remove:ifAbsent: on an instance of
> IdentityDictionary which causes a shouldNotImplement error when
> loading the FreeType Plus packages from universes in a squeak-dev-123
> image.

Thanks.
Somehow a class variable for a loaded class has been initialized to an
IdentityDictionary rather than to nil.
I think there is something odd going on in the squeak-dev-123 image.

The following code illustrates this...

    Object subclass: #TEST
         instanceVariableNames: ''
         classVariableNames: 'Registry'
         poolDictionaries: ''
         category: 'TEST'.
    (Smalltalk at: #TEST) classPool at: #Registry

It evaluates to an IdentityDictionary() in squeak-dev-beta-123.
But, in squeak-dev-beta-115, it evaluates to nil.

Why would a class var of a newly created class be initialized to an
IdentityDictionary, rather than to nil?

Cheers,
Andy