Re: Entering the whileTrue: object at the st> prompt causes a parser error

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 04/01/21 22:06, Gary Highberger wrote:
> ifTrue: works as expected, whileTrue: fails. Is this behavior known, expected?
>
> st> (true) ifTrue: ['foobar']
> 'foobar'
> st> (true) whileTrue: ['foobar']
> Object: true error: did not understand #whileTrue:
> MessageNotUnderstood(Exception)>>signal (ExcHandling.st:254)
> True(Object)>>doesNotUnderstand: #whileTrue: (SysExcept.st:1448)
> UndefinedObject>>executeStatements (a String:1)
> nil
> st>

Hi,

the receiver of #whileTrue: is a block.  The following works:

[true] whileTrue: ['foobar' printNl]

Paolo