[Newbies] [] whileTrue: [] implementation

[Erlis Vidal]

Thanks Bert!

The byte code has the answer, I thought that the byte code will map the
source code but I see that's not the case, probably to ensure some
optimizations.. or to do that "jump" I don't know how to do that in
smalltalk

Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer such a newbie question.

Erlis

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 04.10.2011, at 18:41, Erlis Vidal wrote:
>
> Can I add methods to literal blocks?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> Where do I implement those methods?
>
>
> In class BlockClosure.
>
>
> In case your answer is in BlockClosures, why I don't see any ifTrue: in the
> while implementation?
>
>
> Because the compiler generates a jump byte code for whileTrue: directly. In
> a browser on the whileTrue: method, click the "source" button to switch to
> showing byte codes.
>
>  - Bert -
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>
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