On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 6:42 PM, St�phane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:

of course it is there

� � � �newArray at: 34 put: Point new.

now could not we have a well initialized point?
What is the purpose of this one?

Stef

On Apr 21, 2011, at 6:39 PM, St�phane Ducasse wrote:

> with manuel oriol we started to play with the idea of a randomTester in Pharo. It poses a lot of questions.
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> Now doing the first experiments, I found an instance of point (nil@nil) (besides reciprocal broken on Point (0@0) and
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> (Point allInstances select: [:each | each x isNil]) first pointersTo
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> points me to recreateSpecialObjectsArray
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> I looked into the literals and others and I could not find.
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> Each time I execute
> � � � Smalltalk recreateSpecialObjectsArray
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> I get a new nil@nil objects.... but forcing a GC garbage them.
> But I still have this nil@nil object around.
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> Does anybody have an idea from where nil@nil could come from?
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> Stef
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