What should be in the next release.

[Tony Garnock-Jones]

Bert Freudenberg wrote:
> Or are you proposing to have Exupery inline blocks? This would certainly
> be possible in precisely the cases where the current compiler issues a
> jump byte code instead of full block

Yes, this is what I'm hoping Exupery will do.

> , except you do it in a much more
> complicated way without any gain in speed or flexibility.

I disagree - it isn't quite "for free", but it's similar to the way
other message-sends are inlined; and you *do* gain both speed and
flexibility in terms of defining control structures in userland rather
than requiring ad-hoc compiler hacks for efficiency. The Self system
demonstrated the benefits of the technique quite nicely, IMO.

Cheers,
  Tony
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