[squeak-dev] Emergency evaluator broken?

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 20:18:46 UTC 2013


On 12 December 2013 20:17, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 December 2013 19:57, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Move Transcripter to ST80.
>>
>> 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.

I'll do the class moving, but I'm not tackling Morphic.

frank

> 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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