Fear and loathing of the "perification" of Smalltalk

Tue Sep 4 23:06:04 UTC 2007

On Sep 5, 2007, at 12:53 AM, Peter William Lount wrote:

> The curly braces require the same virtual machine statement  
> evaluator upgrade as the blocks version does, do it's not any more  
> magic than the curly braces are doing! The "objects" (or "values"  
> if you prefer) message simply calls an appropriate virtual machine  
> primitive to collect up the results of each statement.

No! the curly braces is not handle by the VM. Is translated by the  
compiler.

	Mth