Comments on Smalltalk block closure designs, part 1

Henrik Gedenryd Henrik.Gedenryd at lucs.lu.se
Thu May 3 08:17:43 UTC 2001


Tim Rowledge wrote:

> "Anthony Hannan" <ajh18 at cornell.edu> is widely believed to have written:
> 
>> I think Allen's design is more "correct" for independent blocks.
>> 
>> I for one would like to see a block contain its own bytecodes as well as
>> literal references and a reference to the shared environment between the
>> block and its home method.  Blocks would be just like mini CompiledMethods.
> If people (you, Ian, etc) can agree a spec for how you want this, then
> I can incorporate much of it in the NewCompiledMethod rework I hope to
> get done soon.
> 
> tim
> -- 
> Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
> Fractured Idiom:- CA VA SANS DIRT - And that's not gossip
> 
> 

You will need to cc that directly to Ian since he doesn't subsribe to the
list.

I did so here.

Henrik






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