Moved to treated because the bug does not occur any longer. Apparently the logic in Shout has been adjusted in the mean time. :-)

Best,
Christoph

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On 2020-01-29T22:01:03+01:00, das.linux@gmx.de wrote:

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> > On 29.01.2020, at 21:48, Jakob Reschke <forums.jakob at resfarm.de> wrote:
> >
> > Funny... not sure whether this is an intended and desirable feature though.
>
> Reminds me of the "lobby" object in Self.
>
> -t
>
> >
> > <commits at source.squeak.org> schrieb am Mi., 29. Jan. 2020, 18:27:
> > Christoph Thiede uploaded a new version of Tools to project The Inbox:
> > http://source.squeak.org/inbox/Tools-ct.937.mcz
> >
> > ==================== Summary ====================
> >
> > Name: Tools-ct.937
> > Author: ct
> > Time: 29 January 2020, 6:26:57.711894 pm
> > UUID: 34af35bc-83e2-9b40-9aa3-8f6af607ac6e
> > Ancestors: Tools-mt.929
> >
> > Fixes a styling issue in the Workspace that missstyled class variables from Object as invalid (that is DependentsFields). This is a bug because you can access DependentsFields indeed.
> >
> > There is a subtle but important difference between the classOrMetaclass nil and the classOrMetaclass Object: The former does not respect any state for styling, but the latter respects class variables from Object (as well as, hypothetically, ProtoObject).
> >
> > Please note that it would be even more accurate to specify nil class instead of Object here, but I don't know whether we really want to emphasize the nuances of UndefinedObject. It feels rather like an implementation detail for me, at least in this context. (Just imagine UndefinedObject had a UniqueInstance class variable - would we really to access it from any Workspace?) Open for opinions.
> >
> > =============== Diff against Tools-mt.929 ===============
> >
> > Item was changed:
> > ----- Method: Workspace>>aboutToStyle: (in category 'code pane') -----
> > aboutToStyle: aStyler
> >
> > self shouldStyle ifFalse: [ ^false ].
> > + aStyler
> > + parseAMethod: false;
> > + classOrMetaClass: Object;
> > - aStyler
> > - classOrMetaClass: nil;
> > workspace: self.
> > ^true!
> >
> >
> >
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