On 16.02.2010, at 05:16, Jerome Peace wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> As a bug tracker, I sometimes get into the mood for historical research. What happened 30 years ago and how does it affect us now?
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> So with my faithful mischief maker puck looking over my shoulder I have been reading the Draft Ansi Smalltalk Standard.
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> I mention puck because when we don't recognize something he suggests ways to try things out. Doing so we found that
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> 15 bitAt: 1 "works and returns 1"
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> yet
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> 15 bitAt: 1 put 0 "is not understood, It brings up a spelling corrector."
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> So I'm stumped.
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> Does squeak differ from the standard by not implementing bitAt:put:

Even #bitAt: seems to be a very recent addition. It's not in 3.8.

And it's not even clear what #bitAt:put: should do on SmallIntegers, which are immutable. What does the standard say?

- Bert -