[Q] Status of blocks

Anthony Hannan ajh18 at cornell.edu
Wed Jan 15 00:11:00 UTC 2003


Avi Bryant <avi at beta4.com> wrote:
> It's redundant, but let me add my agreement: Anthony, *please* do give us
> block closures on the stock VM, if at all possible.  I seem to constantly
> be doing things these days where I'm bitten by the lack of them.

Alright, I will.  But beware, it will make Squeak slower, rather than
faster like VI4.  I don't know how much slower yet.  I will try to make
closures optional, meaning you can set a preference as to which compiler
you want to use when methods are saved.

Cheers,
Anthony



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