[Vm-dev] I just did a terrible thing :-)
Tobias Pape
Das.Linux at gmx.de
Sun Sep 20 17:08:19 UTC 2020
> On 20.09.2020, at 16:45, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
>
>
> Am Sa., 19. Sept. 2020 um 19:40 Uhr schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
>>
>>> On 2020-09-19, at 8:40 AM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 :-)
>>
>> This is just one of the reasons I'd really like properly done private methods; if the Class>setName: method were private you wouldn't have been able to do this. And a lot of other people (ie almost certainly absolutely every person the ever wrote any Smalltalk) wouldn't make a whole raft of mistakes.
>>
>
> ...or more value objects that are immutable.
Here you are:
https://github.com/shiplift/RSqueakOnABoat
;)
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