[Vm-dev] An issue with Slang, the interpreter & the VM, and a period in biasToGrow.

Jecel Assumpcao Jr jecel at merlintec.com
Tue Jan 23 13:12:35 UTC 2007


David T. Lewis wrote:
> Um, wait a minute. The Smalltalk compiler does not complain about it,
> so why would we expect the Slang translator to complain about it? It's
> perfectly valid Smalltalk, and it does not blow up until you run it
> in Squeak.

Exactly - my guess is that if this code had ever been executed it would
have failed with a "does not understand #self" error. So I don't see
this system as broken (perhaps very fragile, though).

-- Jecel



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