"an invalid X"

Can someone point me to a write-up on the Wiki or in the documentation
which explains the circumstances in which the debugger after a pop-up
might say that "self" for an instance of a class X, in this case
itself a subclass of Object, is an "invalid X"?  Failing that, how
about a quick list here?

Thanks much.

I love R4, Object-Arts!

Ciao,

    -Jan

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Jan

"Jan Theodore Galkowski" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Can someone point me to a write-up on the Wiki or in the documentation
> which explains the circumstances in which the debugger after a pop-up
> might say that "self" for an instance of a class X, in this case
> itself a subclass of Object, is an "invalid X"?  Failing that, how
> about a quick list here?

It means that an exception occurred when the debugger attempted to get the
printString* of the object. To find out why debug through "self printString"
(evaluate with Debug-It from the context menu within one of the Debuggers
own workspace windows).

* Actually the Debugger uses #debugPrintString, but this is implemented in
terms of #printString by default, except in the case of ProtoObject which is
intended for implementing forwarding proxies, and which therefore forwards
#printString itself.

Regards

Blair

Blair McGlashan wrote:

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[snip]

Blair, Thanks.  That makes sense in the context where it occurs.  --Jan


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