[Vm-dev] I just did a terrible thing :-)

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Smalltalkers,

    I just made a Smalltalk := nil type blunder.  I wrote:

TVariableNode setName:
(node selector = #maxVal
ifTrue: ['MaxSmallInteger']
ifFalse: ['MinSmallInteger'])

and suddenly parse tree printing didn't work and TVariableNode was called
MaxSmallInteger :-)

Once I wrote

TVariableNode new setName:
(node selector = #maxVal
ifTrue: ['MaxSmallInteger']
ifFalse: ['MinSmallInteger'])

normal service was resumed.  Normally we don't shoot ourselves in the foot,
but when we do we can sometimes repair the damage perfectly by
evaluating TVariableNode
setName: #TVariableNode ;-)
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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