Ah, so the GC in the VM swizzles the pointers out from under you.
http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1999-June/006170.html

Is the above a good summary?

 - Ron

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Craig Latta <craig at netjam.org> wrote:

>
> Hi Ron--
>
> > ...why call a thing 'pointer' without being able to dereference it?
>
>     OOP manipulation happens in the virtual machine; or rather, at the
> level where there is no garbage collector beneath you, swizzling them. :)
>
>
> -C
>
> --
> Craig Latta
> www.netjam.org
>
>
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