Well, I *did* try, and Cmd-. worked for me. Latest Mac VM, vanilla  
3.8 image.

- Bert -

Am 14.11.2005 um 19:14 schrieb Donald Major:

> Sorry, but you missed one of the key facts -- ALT-. DOESN'T interrupt
> the loop -- once I reproduced the endless loop condition, I spent  
> over a
> minute trying ALT-. and later even CTL-. to try and interrupt the
> process -- it didn't respond.  When I took the "extreme" measure of
> killing the Squeak X window, which usually catches even this  
> phenomena,
> causing Squeak itself to shutdown within another second or two, this
> particular runaway process STILL kept chugging along -- I actually had
> to kill the Squeak process via an OS shell-issued kill command.  The
> suspected, unreliable bug mentioned in someone else's post regarding
> ALT-. behavior not always being 100% operational IS correct.
>
> That said, I still like the idea of changing size to signal subclass
> responsibility, as Andreas suggested (not that I'm the one to do it --
> I'm still too far back on the learning curve regarding the current
> mechanisms for entering changes, no matter how minor, to the system).
>
> Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Am 14.11.2005 um 16:13 schrieb Bob.Cowdery at CGI-Europe.com:
>>
>>> x := SequenceableCollection new, then try to print x. Lock-up +   
>>> 100%
>>> CPU. The only response is from the main window, quit without  saving
>>> then kill squeak as it's still running.
>>
>> As others pointed out, Alt-. would have interrupted that  
>> "endless"  loop
>> quite nicely.
>>
>> SequenceableCollection is an abstract class and thus is not meant for
>> direct instantiation. Which is not a problem at all because you would
>> find out very soon if you try to use it. Which in fact you did ;-)
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
>>
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