[squeak-dev] Emergency evaluator broken?

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 19:57:40 UTC 2013


Move Transcripter to ST80.

Then check for presence of class named #Transcripter in
Object>>#primitiveError: to determine whether to present and accept that
option.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>wrote:

> I've not run into the emergency evaluator, but I wonder: Transcript
> class >> #emergencyEvaluator calls Transcript >> #newInFrame:, which
> calls #initInFrame: which checks for a class called Paragraph. (Trunk
> doesn't have such a class, because - AFAIK at least - it's an ST80
> class). If there's no such class, _it raises an #inform:_. In an
> emergency, that's probably not what you want!
>
> So: has anyone used the emergency evaluator of late? Have you used it
> in an image without ST80?
>
> Certainly the example usage in Transcript >> #newInFrame: is broken:
>
> (Transcripter newInFrame: (0 at 0 extent: 100 at 200))
>     nextPutAll: 'Hello there'; endEntry;
>     cr; print: 355.0/113; endEntry;
>     readEvalPrint.
>
> frank
>
>
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