Hi Damien,

on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:29:18 +0100, you wrote:
> Ok, I may not use the right word. What comment would you write ?

I cannot write you that comment. Smalltalk was built with a minimum set of  
unchangeable parts, see "Design Principles Behind Smalltalk" just the  
sentence after "Good Design"

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http://users.ipa.net/~dwighth/smalltalk/byte_aug81/design_principles_behind_smalltalk.html

Moreover, the design principle does not say minimal, it says minimum.

It turned out the only unchangeable parts are instances of SmallInteger  
(they are their own oop).

Every object (but the SmallIntegers) can be changed and I disagree with  
your blaming of the compiler and streams.

/Klaus

> 2007/2/24, Klaus D. Witzel <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>:
>> Hi Damien,
>>
>> I still think that something is not correct with your analysis. In you
>> comments you write:
>>
>>         "Current compiler uses only one variable for both strings. I  
>> think this
>> is a bug."
>>
>> But you do not code a variable, instead you code *literals* which, as  
>> was
>> mentioned earlier, are also not a constant.
>>
>> ?
>>
>> /Klaus
>>
>> On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:14:52 +0100, Damien Cassou wrote:
>>
>> > I've written unit tests for this compiler "optimizations". I think
>> > they show a bug. See attached file.
>> >
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