not inlining #class (was Re: Singletons)

Avi Bryant avi at beta4.com
Thu Dec 4 20:39:30 UTC 2003


On Dec 4, 2003, at 4:04 AM, ducasse wrote:
>
> I did that beofre discovering Squeak. In squeak you can change the 
> compiler to send the class message.
> this is changeClass and a real valueWith that was missing at that time.

It seems to me there was a thread a bit ago about changing this so that 
#class actually gets sent.  Is there any reason not to do this?   What 
was the original rationale behind inlining it?  Can we change it in 
3.7?




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