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From: bmc@argus.UUCP (Bob Czech)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: literals
Message-ID: <938@argus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 21:56:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 21:56:08 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 08:51:49 EDT
Organization: NJ Instit of Tech, Newark NJ
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Keywords: literals methods


	I've been working on a variation of the smalltalk model and in studying
the VM I've found that if you have a string constant in a method and assign it
to an instance variable and somewhere down the line you make a modification to
that string, that the constant in the method would hence change.  Is this
correct?  And if so, I see it as a major flaw that you would be able to modify
a constant!