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From: timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Mysterious appearances of Doits  in V286
Message-ID: <2562@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 20 Nov 90 12:50:49 GMT
Reply-To: timm@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Tim Menzies)
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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Does anyone else get  mysterious "Doit" methods appearing in their
Smalltalk/V 286 image? 

The manual says that only Undefined object has a "Doit" method
(though lord knows what it  does). But my virgin Smalltak V 286
images  tells  me (via Smalltalk implementersOf:  #Doit) that  there
are Doits in  Array, Interval, etc, etc. Sometimes,  in the classes
that I've created, Doits  appear. I  delete them and nothing
untoward happens.  

Still, I'm curious. Where do  they come from? Can I  kill them safely?

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