Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!linus!linus!linus!mbunix!sdl From: sdl@lyra.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvinchouk) Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: SmallTalk Methods - from Self Documenting to Cryptic Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 20:55:43 GMT References: <1986@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil> Sender: news@linus.mitre.org (News Service) Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: steiger@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil's message of 25 Mar 91 17:27:54 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: lyra.mitre.org In article <1986@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil> steiger@gemini.cs.nps.navy.mil (Robert Steigerwald) writes: > 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? This has happened to me with other Smalltalks, when (for whatever reason) Smalltalk is unable to find the source code of methods. Then it re-generates "source code" from the compiled code, inventing temporary names (like t1, t2) for local variables. I suggest you check the installation and see where it looks for sources. -- Steven Litvintchouk MITRE Corporation Burlington Road Bedford, MA 01730 (617)271-7753 ARPA: sdl@mbunix.mitre.org UUCP: ...{att,decvax,genrad,necntc,ll-xn,philabs,utzoo}!linus!sdl "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"