Re: redefining VIEW crashes MCL

[bill@cambridge.apple.com (Bill St. Clair)]

>>The following definition in MCL crashes my IIci.  Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>>(defclass view ()
>>  ((scene :initform nil :initarg :scene :accessor view-scene)
>>   (camera :initform nil :initarg :camera :accessor view-camera)
>>   (lighting :initform nil :initarg :lighting :accessor view-lighting)))
>>
>>Thanks.  
>>
>>Vadim Shapiro
>>GM Research 
>
>
>The problem is that VIEW is used to implement the window system, so if you 
>redefine it, you're asking for big trouble. 
>

Steve's explanation is correct. That evaluating the DEFCLASS above causes your
MCL to crash rather than signal an error informing you of an attempt to redefine
a kernel class was a bug in MCL 2.0b1. This bug has been fixed for MCL 2.0 final.