Am 12.06.2006 um 23:08 schrieb nicolas cellier:
Le Dimanche 11 Juin 2006 14:54, mathieu a écrit :
An other things intresting is where do nil being initialized? [I
know he
is an old friend but it should have been born in a certain
time :-) ]
I think this one is so essential, that you can only find it in some
bootstrap
method not written in Smalltalk.
There must be a few initializer that you will hardly find in the
image, like
initialization of Smalltalk (I mean SystemDictionary).
Did you see something like Smalltalk at: #Smalltalk put: Smalltalk ?
Like the (Metaclass class class) knot...
Like the Process stuff...
Feel free to discover more!
You must admit that an image must have been created once ex nihilo
(or rather
ex C-code glue).
Most certainly not C. The first Smalltalk prototype was a BASIC
program, Smalltalk-72 was coded in assembly. We'd have to ask Dan to
be sure where the nil instance in Squeak comes from ...
- Bert -
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