#apply:from:to: (was: Re: Idea for a possibly better Collection ...)

Jon Hylands jon at huv.com
Tue Sep 12 20:36:30 UTC 2006


On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:27:24 +0000, "J J" <azreal1977 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> so are there any VM primitive writers out there who would be interested in 
> tackling this?  I'm afraid that this sort of thing is beyond me at the 
> moment. :)  It seems like something that could make a big positive impact.

One of the obvious issues with writing this is the VM needs to be able to
evaluate the block (arbitrary Smalltalk code) from within a primitive. I'm
not sure how easy (or even possible) this is in Squeak.

Later,
Jon

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