[Vm-dev] Re: Reproducible way to crash Cog ( [Lsehub-staff] Strange behavior )

[Henrik Johansen]

On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:42 00PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:

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> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On 12/8/2010 1:58 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> I never used this prim before, so i didn't knew that it takes the
> class of argument,
> instead an argument itself as a class to which replace receiver's class.
> 
> VisualWorks also started off with a changeClassToThatOf: primitive which took an instance.  We fixed that by providing behavior>adoptInstance:. This still has to extract format info form the receiver (a class) but at least the primitive can assume the receiver is a valid behavior and it only has to check if the argument is suitable as an instance of the class. 
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> I wrote this for Cog also, see primitiveAdoptInstance, #160, so if you find this more convenient you can use it; find attached.
> 
> HTH
> Eliot

Weee, I've missed the adoptInstance: method! 
While I agree it's nothing to use regularly, it can be fun to play around with.
F.ex, I used the primitive some time ago in an evil/clever experiment  to remove depth instVar / methods which branch on depth from Form.

So, to have a method which works on both Cog and non-Cog, could we write:

Behavior >> #adoptInstance: anInstance
<primitive: 160 error: ec>
^anInstance changeClassToThatOf: self basicNew

Or are the failure cases different?

Cheers,
Henry
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