I created a method referring to a non-existent "Snark" class. To my astonishment, "Code Search|References to it" quietly failed to do anything visible. It didn't find it, and it didn't say that it couldn't find it. However, "Code Search|Method source with it" DID find the reference. Pharo 9 and Pharo 11 both do this, although the on-screen interface is different.
In Squeak, "References to it" worked fine, BUT when I created the method I wasn't offered the option of leaving "Snark" undeclared; the closest was "Declare global". Smalltalk/X offered me the option of "Continue" with an undeclared variable, and then "References to it" worked perfectly. On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 at 01:43, Tim Mackinnon <Tim@testit.works> wrote: > > Hi - I was convinced in earlier Pharo’s, if you had a code reference to a non > existent class you could find it by searching for references to its symbol > name eg #MyMissingClass allReferences (or find references in the UI). This > doesn’t seem to work in Pharo 11? I loaded a package with a missing class, > and when running something it complained about the missing class (it was an > announcement), but I couldn't find an easy way to find it in my code to > correct it? I ended up creating the fake class to then find references to it > (as I then had a class), which seems way over the top? > > I haven't had a chance to try this in Pharo 12, but shouldn't what I have > done work? Or is there some new way to do this? I asked on Discord users, but > didn't get a reply other than it rang a bell. > > I know there has been a lot of work in the area of how things are represented > and I wonder if something has got broken by mistake? > > Tim
