Environment-caused SyntaxError running build scripts (was Re: [squeak-dev] error when updating Squeak4.4-12327 to trunk)

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Mar 11 23:13:40 UTC 2013


On 2013-03-12, at 00:11, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is Environments, and it's _after_ the image is updated: first the
> CI job runs update-image.st, copies this updated artifact, and in the
> copy runs prepare-test-image.st. That then fails because of a
> SyntaxError being thrown, saying this:
> 
> DoIt
> 	Smalltalk
> 		at: #Log
> 		put: [:t1 |
> 			| t2 |
> 			t2 := #Invalid literal character ->#DateAndTime value now
> printString , ': ' , t1.
> 			FileStream stdout nextPutAll: t2;
> 				 nextPut: Character lf;
> 				 flush.
> 			##Transcript value cr; show: t2].
> 
> Compare that to the original source, from prepare-test-image.st in the CI job:
> 
> Smalltalk at: #Log put: [:msg | | str |
> 	str := DateAndTime now printString, ': ', msg.
> 	FileStream stdout nextPutAll: str; nextPut: Character lf; flush.
> 	Transcript cr; show: str].
> 
> Note the ## marks prepended to (some of) the class names. Colin? Thoughts?

I've seen that too. It happens I think when code gets decompiled.

- Bert -




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