On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 11:20 PM, Andrew C. Greenberg wrote:

>
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2001, at 08:18 PM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>
>> It must be acknowledged that a programming language where you can do
>> 	Smalltalk keys do: [:k| Smalltalk at: k put: nil]
>> (which reliably kills Squeak 3.0) is one that is going to be subject to
>> crashes of a kind not common in other programming languages.
>
> And there's always the good 'ole:
>
> 	Smalltalk := nil
>
> If that's your metric for instability, guilty as charged.

Well, I'd rather have that kind of error than a segfault due to a divide 
by zero.

I have to admit, my favorite way of killing Squeak is Object become: 
nil.  Has an odd metaphysical beauty to it.

Aaron