Pooh. This time maybe I'll attach the debuglog....

tim
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On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 05:12  PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> In 3.4 with or without the recent update that improves the 
> ClassBuilder there seems to be a problem relating to weak subclasses.
>
> My testcase is to recompile Array. This fails with the attached 
> debuglog because the code checks to see if the type of the WeakArray 
> subclass of Array is the same as the type of the intended new class 
> Array. It gets a bit hard to describe but I hope that makes sense.
> My guess (and it's only a guess for now) is that the code
> 	newType ~~ #normal ifTrue:
> 		["And check if the immediate subclasses of oldClass can keep its 
> layout"
> 		oldClass subclassesDo:[:sub|
> 			oldType _ sub typeOfClass.
> 			oldType == newType ifFalse: [
> 				self error: sub name,' cannot be recompiled'.
> 				^ false]]].
> probably ought to try to understand that #weak is a subform of 
> #variable. Or whatever.
>>
> tim
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tim
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