Trouble with printOn: and super

Hi,

I have a class called Person (direct subclass of Object) that has a
'name' instance variable.

I tried to define a printOn: method like this:

printOn: aStream
        aStream
                nextPutAll: (name ifNil: [super printOn: aStream]
                                  ifNotNil: [:x| x]).

If the name variable is binded to something else nil, I want to print
it, otherwise I want to print some default stuff(whatever super
prints).

Whenever I run it before asigning something to name (when it's binded
to nil) I get a Does not understand error: 'Person does not understand
appendToStream:'.

The culprit seems to be the ifNil block. What am I doing
wrong? O:-)
Thanks

"Fernando" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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Try putting a return before super printOn: aStream ex:
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 printOn: aStream
 aStream
     nextPutAll: (name ifNil: [^super printOn: aStream]
           ifNotNil: [:x| x]).
======

What is happening is that super printOn: is returning self, which is then
being treated like a string and erroring.

Chris