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From: steiger@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil (Robert Steigerwald)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: SmallTalk Methods - from Self Documenting to Cryptic
Message-ID: <1986@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 25 Mar 91 17:27:54 GMT
Reply-To: steiger@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil ()
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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I am running MacSmalltalk, version 0.4.  Things were working fine until
one day my methods began converting to cryptic form.  Every time I "compile"
a method now, all comments in the method are deleted and all variable names
local to the method are changed to t1, t2, etc.  This is quite annoying and
the documentation says nothing.  What's  even more puzzling is that when I
re-install from the distribution disks, the problem persists.  Any ideas?

Bob Steigerwald