[squeak-dev] Re: Error: Attempt to evaluate a block that is already being evaluated

Fri Mar 13 03:29:40 UTC 2009

Michael van der Gulik wrote:
> Is the inability to evaluate an already evaluating block a limitation of 
> the VM rather than something you are never allowed to do in Smalltalk?

The Closure VM [1] and image [2] fix this problem. It is caused by a bit 
of premature optimization that was valuable in the days of yore but is 
no longer needed.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

[1]http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/SqueakVM-Win32-3.11.1-bin.zip
[2]http://squeakvm.org/win32/release/Squeak-3.10.2-Closures.zip