[Interval Problem] 2 cents

Andres Valloud sqrmax at cvtci.com.ar
Fri Jul 30 22:05:53 UTC 1999


Hi.

> > I think it would be a good idea to remove the self sends from any fix,
> > and replace
> >
> > self someInstanceVariablePlainAccessorMethodNamedTheSame
> >
> > with
> >
> > theInstanceVariableItself.
> 
> I strongly object!!
> 
> I'd rather vote the other way round extending it to include lazy
> initialization as well:

I don't understand how lazy initialization would be useful for
Intervals.

> > Because then you start adding message sends and that is time expensive.
> A JIT Compiler should inline these calls anyway.

Do we have one? What about code readability?

Andres.





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