[squeak-dev] how to break 4.5...

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Tue Apr 15 22:33:26 UTC 2014


Great! and thanks for the listing (I keep forgetting to save my 
workspace code from the videos :-/)

Am I right in thinking this really shouldn't permanently lock things up 
, even though its an obvious bug in my code?

It would be a common noob mistake and pretty awful to have happen as 
your first encounter with a Squeak bug.

L

On 4/15/14, 3:19 PM, gettimothy wrote:
> First, thanks for an awesome vid. Very informative.
>
>
>     |myMorphs|
>     myMorphs := Array new: 360.
>     0 to: 359 by:15 do:[:i | myMorphs at: i+1 put:((NCCurveMorph new)
>     extent: 20 at 20;
>     openInWorld;
>     center: (450 at 330) + (300 *((i degreesToRadians cos)@(i
>     degreesToRadians sin))); yourself)].
>
>
>     1 to:(myMorphs size - 1) do:[:i |
>     i+1 to: myMorphs size do:[:j |
>     ((myMorphs at:i ) ~= nil and:(myMorphs at:j ) ~= nil)
>     ifTrue:[NCAAConnectorMorph fromMorph: (myMorphs at:i)
>     toMorph:(myMorphs at:j)]]]
>
>     "tty Debug Lock"
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances do:[:each | each lock:True].      
>     "This locks it"
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances inspect.                    
>      "about 285 instances"
>     Transcript clear.
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances do:[:each | Transcript show: (each
>     bounds);cr. ].  "works"
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances do:[:each | Transcript show: (each
>     bounds);cr. each lock:true ]. "works"
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances do:[:each | each lock:true].  "works"
>     True inspect.
>     true inspect.
>     NCAAConnectorMorph allInstances do:[:each | each lock:(True
>     initializedInstance)].   "works"
>
>
> I was able to recreate the lockup you described.
> Changing the lock:True to lock:true (all lowercase) does not cause the 
> lock up.
>
> You can work through the reasoingin with the "tty Debug Lock" section 
> in the above code.
>
> If you do the two inspect statements at the bottom, you will see you 
> where passing the "True class" instead of the instance "True".
>
> cordially,
>
> tty
>
>
>
>


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