Re: Ad-hoc final harvesting for 3.4

Ned Konz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.smalltalk.squeak.foundation
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On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:35 am, Andreas Raab wrote:
> [*1] I find it _extremely_ questionable to raise an error by
> default here. There may be a few applications which need to know
> about it but by and large I would expect people to get really
> confused and say "yeah, of course it's gone that's what it *ought*
> to do". For those who do it is utterly trivial to provide a
> different subscription (MessageSend subclass).

Good point. I just posted a new version in which the value* will 
return nil if the receiver or arguments have been GC'd.

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