[squeak-dev] Is it dangerous to ignore Dangerous?

karl ramberg karlramberg at gmail.com
Wed Aug 19 20:21:51 UTC 2020


Same in Squeak 2.8.
Dangerous is nil and not accessed.

Best,

Karl

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:41 PM David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> Following the removal of Classbuilder>>format:variable:words:pointers:weak:
> I had planned to remove a reference to that method (and one or two others)
> in MethodFinder>>noteDangerous. But to my surprise, I see that the set of
> Dangerous methods in MethodFinder is completely unused (except by a method
> that is itself unused).
>
> How is this even possible? I had assumed that the Dangerous methods were
> important to the fundamental functioning of MethodFinder, which explores
> the system looking for methods that produce results matching some example
> pattern. How could this possibly be working if we do not pay attention to
> the set of methods that are too dangerous to be invoked by the method
> finder?
>
> This is not a new situation, I looked at a Squeak 3.6 image and see the
> same thing.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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