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

[Nicolas Cellier]

If we want to avoid heart disease we can also use better constructors like
TVariableNode named: ...  ;)

Le sam. 19 sept. 2020 à 17:41, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> a
écrit :

>
> 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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