Hi Tony--

 > > (The Spoon VM has a distinct [object header format field value] for
 > > methods which have been run.)
 >
 > (This sounds like the hook for an interesting conversation!) Why?

	Oh, just to have a convenient way for the VM to mark a method when 
running it, and to check later whether a method has been run. The 
original motivation was for detecting methods which hadn't been run, so 
they could be discarded.


-C

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