Hans-Martin Mosner wrote:
> nice schrieb:
>>
>> But my joke was about the dogma "provide a failure test before your
>> change is accepted in Squeak".
>>
>> Correcting such bug is ten times easier than writing a TestCase, and
>> is an emergency. So in some exceptional cases like this the dogma
>> should be "Correct immediately then provide a non regression test case".
> <offtopic>As a christian I'm pretty cautious about dogmata - they are
> always formulated by people who have only partial insight and don't know
> the whole truth - as Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 13,12... So I take them with a
> grain of salt.</offtopic>
> 
> If you only accept SUnit tests, you're bound to encounter cases such as
> this where it is not possible to write a meaningful failure test.
> But when you accept other kinds of tests, it's pretty simple. The test
> would be a method which when compiled and executed crashes the image.
> With the fix in place, the image does not crash.
> The most important feature of tests is that they are repeatable, which
> this test would obviously be.
> 
> Cheers,
> Hans-Martin
> 
> 

You get it, thus the joke self shouldnt: [SmalltalkImage crash].