Alpha updated

[Brian Rice]

There was a bug in Queue/RingBuffer which is made use of in the REPL. A  
fix is now in the alpha repository - pull the fix and re-try.

On Mar 31, 2005, at 12:29 AM, Bill Sun wrote:

> I successfully rebuilt and bootstrapped the VM.
> However, right after the bootstrapping process, when I
> tried to execute the save image command, I get this
> error message:
>
> ======================================================================= 
> =
> Hi, there!
> Please save your image now, (eg. "Image saveNamed:
> 'slate.image'.") to
> eating this bootstrap.
> Slate 1> Image saveNamed: 'slate.image'.
> The following condition was signaled:
> -1 is not a key in {Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil. Nil.
> Nil. Nil. Nil}
> ======================================================================= 
> =
>
> I tried some simple additions like "1 + 3." and they
> all end of with the above error message.
>
> Any ideas?  Did the windows files get out of sync?
>
> -Bill Sun
>
> --- Brian Rice <water at tunes.org> wrote:
>> Both the alpha images and VM sources have been
>> updated. Here's a
>> summary of the changes:
>>
>> (1) Removal of traits-less objects; you can't call
>> any methods on them
>> - mainly it manifests in "Unprintable object"
>> errors. There was some
>> trickery in the type system objects that used
>> objects with removed
>> traitsWindow slots. This has been re-implemented
>> using a macro; see
>> src/mobius/types.slate. Also, traitsWindow slot
>> removal will throw an
>> error now.
>> The Raw object, an undocumented (and unused)
>> feature, was also removed
>> due to this problem of not having any traits (which
>> prevents calling
>> any message with it).
>> Uses of sendTo:through: in root.slate which
>> complicated a lot of the
>> sources have been removed. These were here only
>> because of the presence
>> of traits-less objects.
>> traits and traitsWindow slots were ensured to be
>> immutable.
>>
>> (2) Additions to the method query protocol. Now,
>> #selector callers and
>> #selector implementations will return methods which
>> call that name and
>> methods with that name, respectively. Both will
>> recursively search from
>> a specified root object given with optional &in:.
>> vm/interp/map.slate
>> gained some utility methods like methodsNamed:(at:)
>> and methodsCalling:
>> to make the querying simpler.
>> isAbstract was added to see if a given method did
>> anything but call
>> overrideThis.
>>
>> (3) Thanks to Olli, ArrayMD (multidimensional array)
>> now has a
>> pretty-printing handler and read/write streams.
>> Traversal order is
>> fixed as yet, but I am working on variable optional
>> specification of
>> traversal order when requesting streams.
>>
>> (4) A VM safety check was added for primitive
>> newSize: methods, which
>> makes a minimum of 0 for size. Previously, calling
>> newSize: with a
>> negative size argument would crash the VM. Make sure
>> to rebuild that VM
>> (it's getting rare, so I figure I need to remind
>> people)!
>>
>> (5) A trivial commentTemplate method will look at an
>> object and do some
>> fuzzy stuff to build a default comment. It returns a
>> String. See
>> derivable.slate.
>>
>> (6) More of Paul's SDL updates have been
>> incorporated.
>>
>> (7) I tried to make REPL and SmartREPL more
>> compatible, but SmartREPL
>> is starting with errors these days that I haven't
>> fully fixed.
>>
>> (8) More File Locator fixes for relative paths. See
>> path.slate.
>>
>> --
>> Brian T. Rice
>> LOGOS Research and Development
>> http://tunes.org/~water/
>>
>>
>
>
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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
http://tunes.org/~water/