"Stephen Pair" <spair at advantive.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:

>  Rather than
> compile in references directly to an association, maybe we should
> compile in a reference to something a little more sophisticated...if we
> change the VM such that the #value method is actually sent (rather than
> make an assumption about having an association), this should be an easy
> thing to achieve (and it's arguably the right thing to do regardless).
I'm pretty sure that it needs no VM change for this. The Compiler needs
to generate pushLiteralConstant + send #value rather than
pushLiteralVariable. Hmm, frees up 32 bytecodes too.

tim
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