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[Miriam Ruiz <miriam@xxxxxxxxxx>]

2012/5/11 Bert Freudenberg <bert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I just checked. Most, if not all of the problems, come from Scratch's use of numbered primitives. They were deprecated in favor of named primitives.
>
> IMHO it would be reasonably simple to re-instate these primitives in the VM. Right now they are simply mapped to primitiveFail. This would get us back the ability to run many old images, unmodified.
>
> The fix for Scratch would be to change all the deprecated primitive calls in the image to the new ones. This is straightforward, though a bit tedious.

I found this thread about -I think- what you're talking about, just in case:

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/vm-dev/2010-January/003666.html

Greetings,
Miry