[squeak-dev] Metacello and Squeak4.4

Colin Putney colin at wiresong.com
Fri Aug 3 20:17:31 UTC 2012


On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Dale Henrichs <dhenrich at vmware.com> wrote:

> Frank,
>
> The Metacello tests add/remove global variables to/from Smalltalk and it
> looks like Environment does not implement #removeKey:ifAbsent:, so I've got
> some 400 test failures because I can't remove a global from Smalltalk ...
>
> I can hack this for the time being but I'm curious what the longer term
> plan will be with regards to removing global variables from Smalltalk or
> perhaps leaving #removeKey:ifAbsent: out is inadvertent ...
>
> BTW, I'm using update 12154 ...
>

First, Environments is being pushed to Squeak 4.5, so it should be removed
from 4.4 shortly.

During the development period for 4.5, Environments will implement
#removeKey:ifAbsent:, but eventually that will be deprecated in favour of
#undeclare: or something similar.

Colin
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