Fear and loathing of the "perification" of Smalltalk
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu Sep 13 09:53:55 UTC 2007
Hi Paolo,
on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:31:00 +0200, you wrote:
>
Peter wrote:
>>> Dictionary from: [ 'Sun'->'Sunday'. 'Mon'->'Monday' "etc" ] values
Klaus wrote:
>> Ahh, sending #values to aBlock, that's quite an interesting direction.
>> And easy to implement, either in Compiler or Reflectivity.
>
> In reflectivity, maybe. In Compiler, not if you want it to work through
> multiple levels of indirection (i.e. making #values an instance method
> on BlockClosure).
A replacement for current {} which also could be decyphered by Decompiler
shouldn't be a problem for current {} accepting compiler.
And having BlockClosure>>#values as well, as an option, wouldn't harm
during development+test of #values (and perhaps later too).
It depends on "just" goals.
/Klaus
> Paolo
>
>
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