From merlyn@stonehenge.com Sat Sep 28 04:30:58 2002
From: merlyn@stonehenge.com
To: squeak-dev@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [ENH] Message / Symbol / Block compatibility
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 03:44:34 -0700
Message-ID: <m11zg4t8j1.fsf@halfdome.holdit.com>
In-Reply-To: <Doug Way's message of "Wed, 26 May 1999 02:50:20 -0400 (EDT)">
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>>>>> "Doug" =3D=3D Doug Way <dway(a)mat.net> writes:

Doug> I noticed one minor downside to the Trampoline versus the other methods,
Doug> which is that you can't pass messages to it which Object happens to
Doug> understand, such as 'asString'  (since the Trampoline uses
Doug> #doesNotUnderstand:).  I wonder if there's any way around that.

Have it return an object instantiated with a class with a superclass
of nil.  Look at ObjectTracer (I think that's it) for an example that
works.

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