[Cuis-dev] nil subclasses (Re: clever or silly idea?)

Andres Valloud ten at smallinteger.com
Thu Jun 13 16:02:17 PDT 2024


In this world you could at least send a message to the process if DNU 
isn't there.  That suggestion was dismissed when I brought it up, hence 
my reference to "minimum" :).  But who knows, maybe things changed since 
then, that was a number of years ago.

On 6/13/24 1:19 PM, Martin McClure via Cuis-dev wrote:
> Not all VMs require #doesNotUnderstand: to be understood. GemStone, for 
> instance, does not. If you send a message to an object that understands 
> nothing, you get a signaled error like "doesNotUnderstand: not 
> understood" but the VM keeps running.


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