On Mar 26, 2018, at 1:33 AM, Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net> wrote:

>> I guess I am missing something here :)
> 
> Ah; I guess what I have been missing is how it works in VisualWorks:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18994704/visualworks-cincom-smalltalk-array-initialization-differences
> 
> Is that it?

Yes.  Although our setter/getter and exceptions are different.  But the base mechanism is effectively identical.  There is a per-object read-only bit that prevents modification that is off by default and will be set for literals.

> 
> Stef
>