Am Sunday 21 November 2004 19:41 schrieb stéphane ducasse:
> martin I did not check carefully so I may totally wrong but in VW
> x become: nil was a documented mistake

I do not know VW. And I can't remember where I read about this 
becomeForward trick to get rid of unwanted stuff. But I agree that it 
is actually the wrong way to deal with the problem of unwanted 
references.

> x become: String new was suggested. else everything was pointing to
> nil
>
> :)
>
> Now the becomeForward: of squeak has different sematnics than the
> become of visualworks and
> is equivalent to oneWayBecome:

Which means?

Martin