Oops, shoot me.  I guess I forgot to read the complete mail.  I was just too
proud of myself for having figured out the problem and wanted to let
everyone know it ;->  Now promptly removing foot deeply inserted into mouth
:)

> This is a standard problem.  I've done this so many times myself.
>
> It is not an unexpected behavior.  Here is the issue.  Take a look at the
> variable you are storing the resultof the FillInTheBlank, called
> name.  You
> have not defined it as a temp, therefore it must be somewhere.  Well, it
> turns out that that somewhere is the instance variable of a
> class.  So what
> you've done is directly written over the inst var that holds the
> name of the
> class.
>
> This is an issue with depending on the automatic cactching of
> missing temps
> and such.  One does not tend to go back and check out the semantics of the
> vars they are using when problems arise.
>
> > !TestObject class methodsFor: 'instance creation' stamp: 'kn
> > 7/11/2000 14:18'!
> > new
> > 	 name _ FillInTheBlank request:'Enter' initialAnswer:''.  ! !
>
>