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<p>Hi Lauren,</p>
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<p>> <span>but ed got unbound by the time the block was called.</span></p>
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<p><span>Could you elaborate that further? If I run your example like this</span></p>
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<div>| ed |</div>
<div>ed := nil.</div>
<div>ed := UIManager default</div>
<div> edit: 'old'</div>
<div> label: 'label'</div>
<div> accept: [ :new |</div>
<div> self inform: new.</div>
<div> ed delete].</div>
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<p><span>then it seems to work as expected: enter something in the workspace, accept it,
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new text is passed to the block, </span>workspace is closed.</span></p>
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<p><span>Best,</span></p>
<p><span>Christoph</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>Von:</b> Squeak-dev <squeak-dev-bounces@lists.squeakfoundation.org> im Auftrag von Lauren P <drurowin@gmail.com><br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Montag, 9. Januar 2023 17:50:39<br>
<b>An:</b> The general-purpose Squeak developers list<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [squeak-dev] getting the edit Workspace from UIManager</font>
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<div dir="auto">Hey List,
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<div dir="auto">I'm using UIManager>>edit:label:accept: to open a Text for editing and I'd like to close the Workspace when the user accepts the text.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Is there a way to pass the Workspace to the block closure?</div>
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<div dir="auto">I tried</div>
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<div dir="auto">| ed |</div>
<div dir="auto">ed := UIManager default</div>
<div dir="auto"> edit: o</div>
<div dir="auto"> label: l</div>
<div dir="auto"> accept: [ :new |</div>
<div dir="auto"> . . .</div>
<div dir="auto"> ed delete]</div>
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<div dir="auto">but ed got unbound by the time the block was called. I was kinda expecting Smalltalk to have lexical extent for block closures, not dynamic extent.¹</div>
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<div dir="auto">I know I can use a Y-combinator to add it to a block variable², but I was wondering if there's something way more Smalltalk and less I-Learned-To-Program-With-Assembler. I'm sure it's something obvious, but there's just so much to Morphic.
It's nice to know I can, but it seems like a bug that I would have to.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Thanks,</div>
<div dir="auto">Lauren</div>
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<div dir="auto">1. I was studying Context to see how it worked and saw the temp stack gets dropped on return, but had a hard time studying its behavior with block closures and multithreading.</div>
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<div dir="auto">2. While I was examining the workings of the call stack I figured out how to bind block-local variables from outside their lexical scope. Mostly to get a better understanding of how it worked.</div>
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