Re: ProcessVariable>>valueIfAbsent: bug (and fix)

Lovely find! Can you think of a testcase?

thank you!
	holger

> On 8. Jun 2021, at 23:06, Piotr Klibert <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> In the previous thread I mentioned a problem in ProcessVariable I encountered while trying out VisualGST. Turns out I was mistaken, the problem was triggered by something else, as I wasn't able to reproduce it after a fresh rebuild. Still, the bug is there for sure: the `valueIfAbsent` never evaluates the block it gets as an argument. Here's the patch:
> 
> 
>    diff --git a/kernel/ProcEnv.st b/kernel/ProcEnv.st
>    index d3780748..fa695641 100644
>    --- a/kernel/ProcEnv.st
>    +++ b/kernel/ProcEnv.st
>    @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ setting for the current process.'>
>         valueIfAbsent: aBlock [
>            "Return the value of this variable in the current process."
>            <category: 'accessing'>
>    -       ^Processor activeProcess environment at: self key ifAbsent: [ nil ]
>    +       ^Processor activeProcess environment at: self key ifAbsent: aBlock.
>         ]
> 
>         value [
> 
> 
> (the method comment should probably also be changed a bit, now that I look at it...)
> 
> 
> Best regard,
> Piotr Klibert
>