> Something is rotten here, I think, but I don't know where to start in
 > finding out exactly what.

A while ago Association>>= was changed to compare the values in addition 
to its keys which has bitten me many, many times since it was 
introduced. Most likely it is the culprit here, too.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

Andrew P. Black wrote:
> OK, so I patched the McMczReader and got NewCompiler to load.   I no 
> longer get the "attempt to activate a block that is already active" 
> errors.  However, my code doesn't give the expected results, and the 
> debugger is no help at all in figuring out why, since it doesn't 
> understand the blocks.
> 
> My confidence was not improved by running the NewCompiler tests — they 
> crashed the image.
> 
> Before I tried that, I wrote one of my own tests — just a little 
> workspace code.
> 
> i := 21. j := 0.
> b := [(i:= i-1) > 0 ifTrue: [j := j+1 . b value.] ifFalse:[j]] .
> b value
> 
> I think that b value should print as 20 (plus or minus 1) ... but I get 
> 1.  Well, now I get 20.  But only if I execute the three statements one 
> at a time.  
> 
> If I put all three in the same doit, I get an infinite loop.  
> Array(SequenceableCollection)>>= calls 
> Array(SequenceableCollection)>>hasEqualElements  calls
> Association>>= calls
> BlockClosure>>= calls
> Array(SequenceableCollection)>>=
> 
> etc.
> 
> Something is rotten here, I think, but I don't know where to start in 
> finding out exactly what.
> 
> 
> On 8 May 2007, at 08:58, Andrew P. Black wrote:
> 
>>
>> On 8 May 2007, at 0:41, Damien Cassou wrote:
>>
>>> 2007/5/8, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse at free.fr 
>>> <mailto:stephane.ducasse at free.fr>>:
>>>> andrew use the squeak-dev image
>>>> everything is checked and working with 3.9
>>
>> I am using the dev-image version 118.  
>>
>>> The NewCompiler is not installed in the image but is present in the
>>> Universe Browser and, is up to date and dependencies will be installed
>>> automatically.
>>
>> What is the Universe Browser?  How do I get it?  Well, google answered 
>> that one.  It looks like a replacement for Squeakmap (which would 
>> explain why noone else seemed worried that squeakmap was broken in 
>> 118.)  Seems very nice.   No package search function , though — like 
>> the Smalltalk-80 class browser, or the old Soviet telephone directory.
>>
>> I found NewCompiler in "--System--"  Unfortunately, I get error: key 
>> not found in McMczReader >>extractInfoFrom: a  when trying to load 
>> this package with the Universe Browser.  (Looking for key #ancestors 
>> in a dictionary containing only #id).   What now?
>>
>> Andrew P. Black
>> Department of Computer Science
>> Portland State University
>> +1 503 725 2411
>>
>>
>>
>>
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