Re: halt method not halting execution...?
Posted by
robert.kuropkat on
Feb 05, 2020; 4:18pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/halt-method-not-halting-execution-tp5111132p5111204.html
Chris,
Thank-you, I'll tinker with it more. Also, Nicola Mangotti posted a nice example I can substitute as a lesson for my class.
I'll also tinker some more with it and post anything useful I stumble upon.
Robert
Kuropkat
On Wed, 5 Feb 2020 11:04:38 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Chris Game <
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wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> I also worked through that excellent book and hit the
>same problem,
> reported on this
list under "Halt doesn't stop" in
>October. There
> seemed to be no simple solution to making the program
>behave just
>
like the example in that book. Fortunately there are
>very few such
> issues in following all the examples!
>
>
> On
Tue, 4 Feb 2020, Robert Kuropkat wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I am working my way through the Squeak: Learn
>>Programming with Robots and I hit some unexpected
>>behavior with
>> the halt method in Chapter 15. I am not at
that
>>computer at the moment so cannot say exactly which 3.x
>>version
>> of the VM I am using. It is using the
Ready.image and
>>the V3.sources files.
>>
>> According to the book, the halt method should cause
>>execution
to stop and invoke the debugger. It does in
>>fact
>> invoke the debugger, however, it also skips past and
>>keeps
executing. Is there by chance some setting
>>somewhere
>> telling the program to skip that method and keep
>>executing?
>>
>> I can follow-up later tonight with better details, but
>>thought I'd through the question
out in case there was in
>> fact an easy answer...
>>
>> Robert Kuropkat
>>
>>
>>
>>
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