[squeak-dev] can anyone justify the following comment behaviour?

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Wed Aug 5 03:55:59 UTC 2009


Hi All,
  in ParseNode>>printCommentOn: there is the most perplexing destructive
modification of a comment on printing:

printCommentOn: aStream indent: indent
        | thisComment |
        self comment == nil ifTrue: [^ self].
        1 to: self comment size
         do: [:index |
                 index > 1 ifTrue: [aStream crtab: indent].
                 aStream nextPut: $".
                 thisComment *:=* self comment at: index.
                 self printSingleComment: thisComment
                          on: aStream
                          indent: indent.
                 aStream nextPut: $"].
 *!!*     self comment: nil

  The result is that a parse tree can only be printed once before it prints
without comments.  Can anyone justify this?  I would like to remove it; it
makes no sense to me.
best
Eliot
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