On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Stephen Pair wrote:

> With runtime binding, you have to do the lookup at runtime.  You could
> make the VM actually send #value to bindings, and have a binding attempt
> locate a runtime definition (by looking up the stack) before answering
> the value of the static (compile time) binding.

Doesn't the VM already send #value?  Or else how would references that
were Undeclared at compile time be resolved at runtime?  AFAIK, the
methods have references to VariableBindings and send #value whenever
they're accessed.  All you need to do is get a different class of
VariableBinding into the Smalltalk dictionary.

Avi