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			28 lines
		
	
	
		
			1.3 KiB
		
	
	
	
		
			Factor
		
	
	
| USING: effects generic help.markup help.syntax kernel math
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| math.parser sequences ;
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| IN: generic.single
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| 
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| HELP: no-method
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| { $values { "object" object } { "generic" "a generic word" } }
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| { $description "Throws a " { $link no-method } " error." }
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| { $error-description "Thrown by the " { $snippet "generic" } " word to indicate it does not have a method for the class of " { $snippet "object" } "." } ;
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| 
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| HELP: inconsistent-next-method
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| { $error-description "Thrown by " { $link POSTPONE: call-next-method } " if the values on the stack are not compatible with the current method." }
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| { $examples
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|     "The following code throws this error:"
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|     { $code
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|         "GENERIC: error-test ( object -- )"
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|         ""
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|         "M: string error-test print ;"
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|         ""
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|         "M: integer error-test number>string call-next-method ;"
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|         ""
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|         "123 error-test"
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|     }
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|     "This results in the method on " { $link integer } " being called, which then passes a string to " { $link POSTPONE: call-next-method } ". However, this fails because the string is not compatible with the current method."
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|     $nl
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|     "This usually indicates programmer error; if the intention above was to call the string method on the result of " { $link number>string } ", the code should be rewritten as follows:"
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|     { $code "M: integer error-test number>string error-test ;" }
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| } ;
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