I can do it with Stream basicNew.
but I have to invoke it twice. The first time it works ok. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.duca...@inria.fr > wrote: > gary > > can you post the smallest code that makes the system hangs? > > Stef > > On Dec 1, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Larry White wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Throwing this out there because it may be a bug. > > > > I'm running the Seaside one-click install on OS X Lion. > > Pharo1.3 > > Latest update: #13302 > > > > I can reliably cause my VM to freeze up and need to Force-Quit it from > the OS. > > > > I'm implementing (copying) the probability logic from the blue book. > When I tried to create an instance of the Binomial class, the system hung. > I can replicate the problem by sending the message #basicNew to > ProbabilityDistribution. ProbabilityDistribution is a direct subclass of > Stream and I haven't overridden or modified #basicNew. > > > > What's happening is that it fails in the BlockClosure [anObject doit], > but only when I instantiate a member of this particular class hierarchy. In > the probability classes, a #doIt in a Workspace hits the line "self > suspend" in the #terminate method of Process and the VM hangs there. > > > > I believe they had ProbabilityDistribution subclass from Stream because > sampling from a distribution is like reading from a Stream, but I don't > think any there's any actual shared code, so I switched the superclass of > ProbabilityDistribution to Object and the code works fine now. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Larry > > >
