Chris,

Thank-you, I'll tinker with it more.  Also, Nicola Mangotti posted a nice example I can substitute as a lesson for my class.  I'll also tinker some more with it and post anything useful I stumble upon.

Robert Kuropkat



On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:04:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Chris Game <chrisgame@pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I also worked through that excellent book and hit the
>same problem,
> reported on this list under "Halt doesn't stop" in
>October. There
> seemed to be no simple solution to making the program
>behave just
> like the example in that book. Fortunately there are
>very few such
> issues in following all the examples!
>
>
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I am working my way through the Squeak: Learn
>>Programming with Robots and I hit some unexpected
>>behavior with
>> the halt method in Chapter 15.  I am not at that
>>computer at the moment so cannot say exactly which 3.x
>>version
>> of the VM I am using.  It is using the Ready.image and
>>the V3.sources files.
>>
>> According to the book, the halt method should cause
>>execution to stop and invoke the debugger.  It does in
>>fact
>> invoke the debugger, however, it also skips past and
>>keeps executing.  Is there by chance some setting
>>somewhere
>> telling the program to skip that method and keep
>>executing?
>>
>> I can follow-up later tonight with better details, but
>>thought I'd through the question out in case there was in
>> fact an easy answer...
>>
>> Robert Kuropkat
>>
>>
>>
>>
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