nil suspend

It sounds like a left over...

no time stamp in Squeak, so it must be old.

Display reverse; reverse means we wanted to catch when such oddity was necessary.

(I would do it differently with an Exception and a MessageTally like I already exhibited several times)

The fact that reverse; reverse was commented is more difficult to interpret... Is it really necessary?

I removed the method in a Squeak image, and so fare nothing wrong happened, but it does not prove anything.

The best is to ask in Squeak lists, maybe someone can remember...

Or carefully analyze all senders of suspend...

2017-11-18 22:36 GMT+01:00 Aliaksei Syrel <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I was looking at nil (already funny) and found a very interesting method:

suspend
   "Kills off processes that didn't terminate properly"
   "Display reverse; reverse."  "<-- So we can catch the suspend bug"
   Processor terminateActive

It means that the following code is probably the shortest way to kill your image (save first!)

nil suspend

It terminates a UI process if evaluated from anywhere using CMD+d :D

Cheers,

Alex

Yes, it doesn't sound right. I vote for removal :)

On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Nicolas Cellier <[hidden email]> wrote:

It sounds like a left over...

no time stamp in Squeak, so it must be old.

Display reverse; reverse means we wanted to catch when such oddity was necessary.

(I would do it differently with an Exception and a MessageTally like I already exhibited several times)

The fact that reverse; reverse was commented is more difficult to interpret... Is it really necessary?

I removed the method in a Squeak image, and so fare nothing wrong happened, but it does not prove anything.

The best is to ask in Squeak lists, maybe someone can remember...

Or carefully analyze all senders of suspend...

2017-11-18 22:36 GMT+01:00 Aliaksei Syrel <[hidden email]>:

Hi,

I was looking at nil (already funny) and found a very interesting method:

suspend
   "Kills off processes that didn't terminate properly"
   "Display reverse; reverse."  "<-- So we can catch the suspend bug"
   Processor terminateActive

It means that the following code is probably the shortest way to kill your image (save first!)

nil suspend

It terminates a UI process if evaluated from anywhere using CMD+d :D

Cheers,

Alex

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