[BUG]Compiler screws up bigtime with same global on both sides of an assign

Wed Feb 5 06:16:25 UTC 2003

Tim Rowledge <tim at sumeru.stanford.edu> wrote:
> I was attempting to test some code that happened to have
> 	Smalltalk := SmalltalkEnvironment newFrom: Smalltalk.
> in there. It failed. Not, I must point out because of the rather
> annoying readonlybinding stuff that seems to have crept into the system.
> No, this is a fullscale failure of the Compiler. Sound the alarms! Call
> the Fire Brigade!

The Closure Compiler does not have this bug.