<div dir="ltr">Hi Andres,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:20 PM, Andres Valloud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net" target="_blank">avalloud@smalltalk.comcastbiz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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It's there to avoid crashes when people implement proxy classes and<br>
Instantiate before remembering to implement doesNotUnderstand: (a<br>
recursive doesNotUnderstand: causes the VM to exit).<br>
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Strange. The VM knows plenty of objects that could arguably understand a message such as<br>
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object: anObject doesNotUnderstand: aMessage</blockquote><div><br></div><div>What's to stop someone deleting, say, Context>>object:doesNotUnderstand: ? At some point there has to be a message handler. Why bother complicating things by allowing there to be no doesNotUnderstand: ?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small;border-collapse:separate"><div>_,,,^..^,,,_<br></div><div>best, Eliot</div></span></div></div></div>
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