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From: an397723@anon.penet.fi (The Unknown Ranger)
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Date: Wed,  4 Oct 1995 15:13:14 UTC
Subject: ':=' is a method ?
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In <95093016325600721@kaimac.swb.de> Kai Garrels <kai@kaimac.swb.de>
writes:
>
>
>Hi Smalltalkers,
>
>I always wondered wether ':=' is a method or not.
>
>Where is it defined?
>
>Thanks for some hints.
>
>Bye,
>kai
>


>>No, it's translated by the compiler into an ObjectEngine "bytecode"
>>(a Smalltalk virtual machine instruction).
>>
>>If you would like to see the "disassembled" virtual machine
>>instructions ("bytecodes") for the method #bar in class Foo,
>>"print" the following:
>>
>>    (Foo compiledMethodAt: #bar) symbolic

This ^^^^^^ doesn't work in Digitalk ST/V. Symbolic is not understood.
Any more ideas? I'm itching to see them bytecodes! :)

Ford Prefect

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