[Help-smalltalk] [bug] Class import: message does nothing

[Stephen Compall]

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Project:      GNU Smalltalk
Version:      <none>
Component:    Base classes
Category:     bug reports
Priority:     normal
Assigned to:  Unassigned
Reported by:  S11001001
Updated by:   S11001001
Status:       committed
Attachment:   
http://smalltalk.gnu.org/files/issues/promote-builtin-import.patch (806 bytes)

STCompiler, at least, uses the #import: message on classes to implement
that pragma.  Unfortunately the empty version in Builtins.st shadowed
the proper definition in ClassDesc.st:


Object: nil error: did not understand #at:ifAbsent:
...
STInST.STCompiler>>acceptMessageNode:


where nil is supposed to be VMSpecialMethods.  Fixed in
*smalltalk--backstage--2.2--patch-68* by promoting said empty version
to ClassDescription.