<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Igor Stasenko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siguctua@gmail.com" target="_blank">siguctua@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Can you be more specific, what exactly it breaks?</span><br>
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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Initially, I didn't realize that you were talking about changes to the compiler. I thought that you were proposing that we replace this code:</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">someMethod</font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> ^ Foo</font></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">with this:</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">someMethod</font></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace"> ^ self environment Foo</font></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">That would break all the existing code that refers to Foo directly. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Colin</div></div>