[Glass] Very strange error - one method can not be found ...

[James Foster via Glass]

Okay. If you have removed all evidence of the problem then we won’t be able to do much more to diagnose it. If it happens again we can investigate it further.

James

On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:23 AM, itlists at schrievkrom.de via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> * the method is there. I saw it and all code worked in a workspace in
> Jade without any problems - and recompiling all methods solved the
> problems. The structure of the class A has not changed and is pretty old
> and was not updated and other methods of this class worked without
> problems. I see no class versions or stuff like this.
> 
> Actually I had/have no idea what went wrong. I just wanted to mention it.
> 
> Marten
> 
> Am 15.10.2014 um 16:02 schrieb James Foster:
>> My suspicion is that the compiled method referred to a class A that did not have method #’x:’. How could that happen? If you had a class A but removed it and created a new A, then the compiled method would still refer to the removed class. Recompiling the method did the lookup over again and found the new A.
>> 
>> James
>> 
>> On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:15 AM, itlists at schrievkrom.de via Glass <glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Today I had a very strange error in one of our development platforms:
>>> 
>>> Assume a class named "A" containing an instance method: "x:".
>>> 
>>> In lots of methods I create instances of class "A" and set the attribute
>>> values via "x:" like:
>>> 
>>> ^A new initialize
>>>   ... ;
>>>   x: aValue ;
>>>   ...;
>>>   yourself
>>> 
>>> And ALL methods calling "x:" are now not working any more. Gemstone
>>> tells me, that x: can not be found. Executing the code in a workspace
>>> works without problems.
>>> 
>>> To get rid of this error I enter the source code, add a space, recompile
>>> the method and now "x:" can be called without problems.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Marten
>>> 
>>> 
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> 
> 
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