vw74 exception originator issue

This may have (probably did) existed before vw74, but that's where I  
noticed it. If I kept such a list, this would be in my top 20 most  
difficult bugs to get to the bottom of in 16 years of Smalltalking.

The attached fileout has two class side methods that print the  
originator of a raised exception. One is correct, the other was not  
expected. The not unexpected one is nil. The reason it is nil seems  
to be because it came from a full block. I raised it from a handler  
block, but the same issue happens if you raise an exception from,  
say, an ifNotNil: block. The homeReceiver is nil, so the originator  
does not get set.

In our case, we probe the originator of some of our Exceptions and if  
it is of a certain type we can provide a much richer 'description'.  
In some cases, the technique worked. In others, it didn't because the  
originator was nil (thus the probe failed). And the difference boiled  
down to wether the exception was raised from within a block. A real  
block, not a block that looks like a block, but isn't a block because  
it's an ifTrue:/ifFalse: construct. They say it's ok to cheat as long  
as you don't get caught. But this seems like a catch.

Anyone else ever run across this before?

--
Travis Griggs
Objologist
"Dying men never wish they'd spent more time at the office"




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[vw7.4][Code cleanup][Base][GenericException] --

1) class comment for GenericException incomplete -- does not document the
        searchContext
instance variable.


2) the selectors

        signal
        signal:

have "TEMPORARY" in their comment -- one wonders how long...  should
move these selectors into a backward compatibility category or whatever
method you are currently using to sunset deprecated selectors.