[squeak-dev] Ancient Mantis Report 1554, compiler and global vs class variables

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Sun Jul 21 21:26:56 UTC 2013


Note that bindingOf: contents moved to bindingOf:environment: since
Environment, so the fix might have to be updated.
BTW when I browse implementors of bindingOf: I see many Trait>>bindingOf:
Is it just me?


2013/7/21 Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com>

> On 21 July 2013 00:41, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> > Whilst trawling through ancient dusty mantis reports I found this little
> fella' - http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=1554 and thought to myself,
> "well now, this one will be closable because someone will surely have
> modified the compiler a fair bit by now and solved this". Wrong. Despite
> the fairly amazing amount of heat that the discussion released back in 2003
> (ten years ago! eeek!) it appears nothing was done at the time beyond a
> proposed fix that only got into Mantis-land two years late through Ken
> Causey's good offices.
> >
> > I tried out the suggested test code in a very recent (#12641) image and
> 8 out of 10 test passed. Now I'm no compiler guru and don't claim to have
> any special opinion on this except that it looked pretty serious back then
> and probably ought to be fixed if at all possible. Unless someone has good
> reasons for those two 'failing' tests to be considered unimportant, of
> course.
>
> Those two tests - are they the tests that Ken says failed before
> loading the changeset, and work afterwards?
>
> frank
>
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one
> works.
>
>
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