[squeak-dev] Emergency evaluator broken?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 20:17:46 UTC 2013


On 12 December 2013 19:57, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Move Transcripter to ST80.
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> Then check for presence of class named #Transcripter in
> Object>>#primitiveError: to determine whether to present and accept that
> option.

... and also get an emergency evaluator working in Morphic.

frank

> 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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