On Sat, 7 Jan 2012, Ben Coman wrote:
Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Am 07.01.2012 um 07:04 schrieb Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com>:
I had thought that the two assignments of 'xxx' to (x) and (y) would result in
different objects, but they turn out to be identical. It is like the compiler
has noticed that they are equal and chosen to make them identical.
That is indeed what's happening.
You can verify this by executing each line separately.
Thanks Bert. Doing that is insightful. Interestingly the result is different
with numbers. Where strings assigned in separate executions are not
identical, numbers assigned in separate executions are identical - at lower
values. For example, number 12345678 has (x) and (y) identical but with
123456789 they are not. I then expected those number literals to be a
different class, but both numbers inspect as SmallIntegers. btw this is with
That's impossible, SmallIntegers with the same value are identical.
Levente
Pharo-1.3-13315-cog2522.
Anyway, my curiosity is satisfied for now.
cheers, Ben
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