Hari,

The only problem I see is that you omitted the colon after 'to'...

		1 	to self size
should be
		1 	to: self size

Otherwise it works fine. If not, tell us what _is_ happening.

Cheers,
Bob

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 17:47:46 -0500 Hari Balaraman <hbalaram2 at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>I'm attempting to learn Smalltalk and would like to post a small 
>question. I apologise in advance if this is is not the appropriate forum 
>for basic questions. Is so please point me in the direction of the 
>relevant forum. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
>Thanks much,
>
>Hari
>
>what follows is the method I wrote for the following problem:  write an 
>array in which each element is the square of the corresponding element 
>in the receiver array. I cannot find out what I am doing wrong:
>
>arraySquared
>	|squarearray |
>	squarearray := Array new: (self size).
>		1 	to self size
>			do: [:index | squarearray at: index put:((self at: 
>index)*(self at: index))].
>	^ squarearray