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Platform:
/usr/lib/squeak/4.19.5-3793/squeakvm Squeak4.6 of 11 December 2017 [latest update: #15117] Unix built on Jan 1 2021 12:28:22 Compiler: 5.15.0 platform sources revision 3793 VMMaker versionString 4.19.5
Issue:
There exists a class Matrix subclass of Collection, it seems to have been implemented in 2002 by 'raok' ?
Go to the Browser, select "Matrix" and browse, and one can see Matrix, subclass of Collection.
When I open a Monticello Browser and add a repository: http repository:
MCHttpRepository location: 'http://www.squeaksource.com/cakit' user: '' password: ''
I can load the Computer Algebra Kit with the "Load" button.
HOWEVER ... despite the fact that there's no warning in the Transcript, this will now result in 2 Matrix classes in the system.
Go to the Browser, select "Matrix" and browse, and one can see Matrix, in the Computer Algebra Kit.
It's a different class ... but a hybrid or 'merged' version, perhaps some sort of 'pose As' version of the original, replaced by the different and totally different subclass Matrix in the CAkit.
Now what I can do, and that works, is before installing the Computer Algebra Kit, I can remove the class Matrix subclass of Collection.
In fact I'm under the impression that I should do that.
If you select Matrix subclass of Collection and from the menu, Remove class ('x') that works.
In fact, I think it is more or less required to do so, because I suspect the steps that I did above, corrupt the image.
The old Matrix class is no longer displayed as subclass of Collection, and the methods of the old class and comments are visible in the new class, but that makes no sense since the instance variables of the new class, are totally different ...
Puzzled by this result.
I think what I'm observing here is that if you load 2 classes with the same name, and with different implementations, what Squeak 4.6 is doing, looks like some sort of poseAs where the last class that is loads substitutes/replaces the first version ...
David Stes