"peter" == peter h meadows phm@sdf.lonestar.org writes:
peter> Oh. I'm still very new to smalltalk. It seemed like it would help me to peter> understand what's going on. I wanted it to remember everything. E.g if peter> the thing is an array it will tell me what has been stored in it. Also, peter> wouldn't it help with code completion? If it knows what type of object peter> it was in the past it can guess which messages I want to send to peter> it. That would be useful.
But the problem is that a given type in the past is not any indication of a type in the future.
You're not "thinking smalltalk" yet. Stop worrying about types. :)
Oh, and they aren't types. They're instances of classes.
If you want to see what's going on, learn to single step in the debugger. It's quite informative.