Things to Do to Images When You're Bored

Last updated at 12:51 pm UTC on 23 October 2005

In the IRC channel, we got into a discussion about odd ways of breaking images/causing VM crashes. Here's what we came up with:

Using the 'become:' operator on important objects can be rather amusing. (For the uninitiated, become: interchanges the identities of two objects.) A couple of fun examples are Smalltalk become: nil and true become: false. Metalogical consequences of disappearing the Smalltalk system dictionary or interchanging the meaning of true and false are best left as exercises to the reader.

A few nice examples of VisualWorks "VM crash code" can be found here
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