Oops, that should have been 6665 not 6655... Corrected. Ken

Downloaded 3.8a-6665Full from http://www.squeak.org/download/index.html

During initial exploration from the point of view of a new user, I found the following issues:

On the page for Block Closures (ii) in the tutorial 'A Gentle Introduction to Smalltalk', by Stephane Ducasse & Serge Stinckwich, I selected the following code that was displayed: -- b1 := [:name| (SampledSound soundNamed: name) play]

b1 value: #croak. b1 value: #scratch. b1 value: #chirp. b1 value: #splash. b1 value: #coyote. b1 value: #silence. -- and tried a do-it but got an error 'Unknown variable: b1, please correct or cancel' with the choices declare temp or declare instance. I selected declare temp and got an error 'Message not understood: Block Context>>b1', and the code text display was messed up. I abandoned the notifier and selected the messed up text which cleaned up the text display, showing a |b1| added before the code but in a different plain style. I tried undo but it would not undo. Now the tutorial is modified and I cannot go back without quitting with no saving.

I copied the same code into a workspace which pasted into the workspace in the same bold style, a do-it of the whole thing got the same error. A subsequent do-it of: b1 value: #croak. got a croaking sound.

A do-it of: b1 value: #coyote. got the sound of an owl. b1 value: #splash. got the sound of a closing drawer or some such thing.

Typing the underscore in the workspace in the pasted bold style, did not result in the left arrow.

Hope this helps.

Ken