Block Closures

Ron Teitelbaum Ron at USMedRec.com
Wed Jan 4 16:06:41 UTC 2006


Hehehe!  Should have read closer.  Sorry about that!

Ron Teitelbaum

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Marcus Denker
> Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:40 AM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Re: Block Closures
> 
> 
> On 04.01.2006, at 15:47, Hernan Tylim wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to try some experiments with BlockClosures on 3.9, but I
> > can't find how to make the Compiler to use them.
> >
> > For example, If I inspect [Transcript show: 'hello world'] I get a
> > BlockContext instance, not a BlockClosure one. Is that correct ?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > Do I need to do something to start using BlockClosure ?
> >
> 
> You need to install the package "NewCompiler", the latest is on
> SqueakSource. Then open the preference browser and enable
> "compileUseNewCompiler" and
> "compileBlocksAsClosures".
> 
> Please note that I have not yet used the NewCompiler in the latest
> 3.9 (with Traits), so it might not work right now...
> 
> Now with the Traits integration done, I will integrate into 3.9 all
> overwrites / extensions needed for runtime that are right now in the
> NewCompiler package. This
> will be done next week.
> 
> 
>       Marcus
> 





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