Two questions
Tim Olson
tim at jumpnet.com
Sat Jun 27 05:38:46 UTC 1998
>Hi.
Hi, Andres:
>What does the star besides the cursor's arrow mean?
That's the "execute" cursor; it should be displayed whenever an action
will take longer than a second or so to give feedback to the user. See
the Cursor class constants for a list of the cursors available.
> ^self class new: value + (self negated and: aProbability negated) value
>
>an error occurs and a message appears saying that the arguments for #and:
>have to be either a variable or a block?
I assume that the class this method is in implements an "and:" message,
which is what you are trying to use in the code above. Unfortunately,
"and:" is one of the few messages that cannot be redefined, because it is
hard-coded in the compiler. The message you see is reported from the
compiler when it is performing the transformAnd: Macro Transformation.
It is checking to see that the argument to and: is either an immediate
block or a variable that might hold a block.
If this is the case, then you will have to choose a different names for
your operations than "and:" and "or:".
-- tim
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