Hi.

Anthony Hannan wrote:

> In Squid, selectors will be more than just symbols.  I'm considering
> adding an attribute to Selector to indicate whether it returns a
> value or not.  All subclass/polymorphic methods would have conform
> to this, and all senders would not be allowed to get the value of a
> "procedure-only" selector.  This will speed up returns a little
> since only "function" methods will have to return something.

I gotta say... why not put this effort into a JIT virtual machine that
will figure whether the answer is being used or not at runtime and
optimize appropriately?  It just gets stuff of the way of the developer.

Andres.