GC or mistake?

[Lee Salzman]

The "hash" method does not work on recursive collections. It will just
keep recursing forever and ever to build the hash. Not sure whether this
should be considered a bug or not. ;)

Lee

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:27:00PM -0000, baseball at nic-nac-project.de wrote:
> Hi,
> I was trying out Slate on my home desktop FreeBSD system. Evaluating the
> following expressions has consistently caused it to attempt to expand the heap
> "beyond limits". Am I doing something illegal, is it a garbage collection thing,
> or what?
> Well, here's a transcript of my slate session:
> Slate: Growing heap to 4726380 bytes.
> Hi, there!
> Slate 1> addSlot: #a.
> (Mixins . Types . prototypes . VM .
>         globals . a . traits )
> Slate 2> a: (Set newEmpty).
> {"Set"}
> Slate 3> a add: a.
> {"Set" {"Set" {"Set" ...}}}
> Slate 4> a remove: a.
> Slate: Growing heap to 8920684 bytes.
> Slate: Growing heap to 13115004 bytes.
> Slate: Attempted to grow heap beyond limits
> 
> I'm trying to figure slate out...I have experimented with smalltalk and am very
> interested in the ideas behind slate.
> Thank you,
> Jim Hartzell
>