[bug][bug][crash]

Dan Ingalls DanI at wdi.disney.com
Mon Apr 12 19:43:48 UTC 1999


Michal -

Thank you for these bug reports.  I have found and fixed all of them -- the changes will be in the forthcoming 2.4 release.

	- Dan

>while setting up a pws for rpc, and dealing with overzealously-parsed CGIs,
>a couple of strange behaviours showed up. for the record... :
>
>i. if you do a #perform:withArguments: on a mono-argumental method but
>specify several arguments in the withArguments section, the method is
>passed its own name as an argument... Eg::
>
>String perform: #fromString: withArguments: #('this is ok').
>String perform: #fromString: withArguments: #('this is ...' '... weird').
>
>the second statement results in: 'fromString:' (while the first correctly
>results in 'this is ok').
>
>
>ii. The statement  '6 size' evaluates to 0... (This is true for any
>number). Is this the intended semantics of 'size'?
>
>
>iii. The statement 'String perform: #fromString: withArguments: 1' entirely
>crashes the VM (on linux-squeak at least, haven't checked whether it
>crashes mac and win)





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