Comments on Smalltalk block closure designs, part 1

Thu May 3 06:45:28 UTC 2001

At 03:24 PM 5/3/2001 +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:

>Take a look at KaliScheme.

Also take a look at http://www.smalltalksystems.com/publications/avmarch.pdf

This presents a complete virtual machine architecture that includes support 
for closures.  Much of the architecture is probably not very applicable to 
Squeak but the design of the activation records, environments, closures, 
and methods are reasonably well explained and many of the concepts should 
be adaptable to squeak.

Allen