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

J J azreal1977 at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 12 20:39:43 UTC 2006


My understand was that it is doing that now with some of the other 
primitives.  Klaus, did I misunderstand?


>From: Jon Hylands <jon at huv.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>Subject: Re: #apply:from:to: (was: Re: Idea for a possibly better 
>Collection...)
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:36:30 -0400
>
>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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