Re: [Help-smalltalk] bug: Smalltalk snapshot: aString

[LD]

Hi again,

On 02/10/2005, at 3:56 AM, Mike Anderson wrote:

> LD wrote:
>
> > I've installed GNU Smalltalk (2.1.11) via darwinports and whilst   
> > going
> > through the online tut (well written btw), I found the  following  
> > error.
> >
> > I see in the class browser online that the SystemDictionary's   
> > snapshot
> > message is deprecated in favour of ObjectMemory's. Where  might  
> > this be
> > fixed so that  the above call to Smalltalk snapshot  will indeed  
> > utilse
> > ObjectMemory's snapshot?
>
> SystemDictionary methodsFor: 'saving the image'!
>
> snapshot: aString
>     ObjectMemory snapshot: aString
> !
> !
>
> - will fix it for you, but really the tutorial should be corrected.

Sorry, I should have mentioned, I understand the above 'fix' but what  
I'm not understanding (yet) is where the initial message "Smalltalk  
snapshot:aString" or command shell is defined for such behaviour.

So, for example, the command:
Smalltalk at: #s put: 2 !

Is the Smalltalk class use above an alias for SystemDictionary? How  
does this all tie together in other words? Where is this behaviour  
customised?

Thanks.

with regards,
--

LD