----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Smet <peter.smet at flinders.edu.au>
To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection catch-22 with blocks


> Marcel,
>
> I'm tempted to agree with you. I was implementing this for compatibility
> with another events system. I'm not sure if blocks are evil, but what is
> evil is the way they are not encapsulated. Hanging onto variables from the
> home context etc. Why not just have clean blocks with their own variables
> etc? Then you can treat them as true objects.

Good question.