Re: [Pharo-dev] nil pointersTo size

2014-09-03 Thread Guillermo Polito
Arrays with empty slots, all collections whose size is smaller than their capacity... :) On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Yuriy Tymchuk yuriy.tymc...@me.com wrote: All ‘uninitialised’ variables are pointing to nil. I think this is the case Uko On 03 Sep 2014, at 06:10, Ben Coman

Re: [Pharo-dev] nil pointersTo size

2014-09-03 Thread Ben Coman
Ah yes. I should have worked that out myself, from here...     ProtoObjectpointsTo:         ^ (self instVarsInclude: anObject) or: [ ^self class == anObject] for example    { nil } pointsTo: nil   "-- true" thanks Yuriy. cheers -ben Yuriy Tymchuk wrote: All ‘uninitialised’ variables are

[Pharo-dev] nil pointersTo size

2014-09-02 Thread Ben Coman
I am curious... what does it mean that nil PointersTo size is a large number? Intuitively I'd have thought the answer would be zero. Pharo build 40196 -- ~101,000 Pharo build 30856 -- ~103,000 Pharo build 20628 -- ~80,000 Squeak 4.5 -- ~40,000 cheers -ben

Re: [Pharo-dev] nil pointersTo size

2014-09-02 Thread Yuriy Tymchuk
All ‘uninitialised’ variables are pointing to nil. I think this is the case Uko On 03 Sep 2014, at 06:10, Ben Coman b...@openinworld.com wrote: I am curious... what does it mean that nil PointersTo size is a large number? Intuitively I'd have thought the answer would be zero. Pharo