Fwd: [squeak-dev] [FIX] MessageNotUnderstood: UndefinedObject>>something

Seen on squeak-dev and submitted to the Pharo tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/detail?id=898


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From: Bert Freudenberg <[hidden email]>
Date: Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Subject: [squeak-dev] [FIX] MessageNotUnderstood: UndefinedObject>>something
To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
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Hi folks,

we have all seen numerous questions from newbies like this:

On 17.06.2009, at 13:25, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>
> On 17.06.2009, at 12:56, Tim Patti wrote:
>>
>> I'm getting a debug window with MessageNotUnderstood: UndefinedObject>>binary.
>
> Which tells you that "fileHandle" is nil.

IMHO it would help if we special-cased the MNU text for a nil
receiver. In that case, I propose the message should read

       MessageNotUnderstood: receiver of "something" is nil

which might point beginners to the actual cause.

Attaching proposed fix.

- Bert -







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