On Mar 23, 2013, at 12:31 PM, "Mohammad Al Houssami (Alumni)" <mha53@mail.aub.edu> wrote:

Hello everyone

I was trying to save my method which has the below piece of code

anythingElseBoolean = false ifFalse: [
                doctypeString := reader next: 6
                doctypeString asLowercase = 'public'     ifTrue: [
                                AfterDOCTYPEPublicKeywordState value: currentCharacter
                                ]

I get a complain that the AfterDOCTYPEPublicKeywordState is unknown even though I have a method with this name.

AfterDOCTYPEPublicKeywordState is a METHOD????

then, you are missing some points:

1) it does not conforms conventions (it should start with lowercase)

2) you need a self call

so, it would be like this:

self afterDOCTYPEPublicKeywordState value: currentCharacter.

but that is also wrong from a design point of view (anti demeters law). So, you better create a (perhaps private) method who does the assignment. And then you have something like this:

self afterDOCTYPEPublicKeywordState: currentCharacter.

Esteban

If I move the method call outside outside the ifTrue block to the ifFalse block it doesn�t complain.

Is the problem because of nested blocks ? If that�s the case then what would be a good work around ?

Thanks
Mohammad