Garbage Collection catch-22 with blocks
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shaping at bigfoot.com
Thu Jun 24 18:56:18 UTC 1999
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Smet <peter.smet at flinders.edu.au>
To: <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 6:47 AM
Subject: Re: Garbage Collection catch-22 with blocks
> Marcel,
>
> I'm tempted to agree with you. I was implementing this for compatibility
> with another events system. I'm not sure if blocks are evil, but what is
> evil is the way they are not encapsulated. Hanging onto variables from the
> home context etc. Why not just have clean blocks with their own variables
> etc? Then you can treat them as true objects.
Good question.
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