I just found, that when i tried to redefine previously declared
regular class to a variable one,
the ClassBuilder bugs me with error, that 'class can't be recompiled'.
Just two doits to reproduce the problem:
Object subclass: #Blabla
instanceVariableNames: ''
classVariableNames: ''
poolDictionaries: ''
category: 'Whatever'.
Object variableSubclass: #Blabla
instanceVariableNames: ''
classVariableNames: ''
poolDictionaries: ''
category: 'Whatever'.
i wonder what the reason of preventing me to redefine a mistakenly
defined class, which having 0 methods? And even if i have the methods,
so what?
I think that this limitation is too strict.
I find it quite inconvenient , since now, to redefine a class, i have
to rename old one, then define a new one which is variable from a
start and then manually copy methods from old one.
Another funny thing that i found, that you can actually do:
| string |
string := 'Blabla'.
Object subclass: string
instanceVariableNames: ''
classVariableNames: ''
poolDictionaries: ''
category: 'Whatever'.
Smalltalk at: string " returns a class you just defined."
Its fun, but having no sense. What is interesting that OB can display
this class (but not in a regular way, you can find it in smart groups
pane, after searching for 'Blabla').
The above is true for both 3.10 and Pharo-10178 (and i think a more
recent Pharo have same behavior).
--
Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
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