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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