3.9 vs. 3.10 : Closures, fixTemps

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Tue Dec 18 23:34:02 UTC 2007


Would you mind sharing what details you know about the current state
of closures and what the trade-offs are using the NewCompiler?

And, do you know of any energy focused on improving the existing alternatives?


On Dec 18, 2007 2:08 PM, Philippe Marschall
<philippe.marschall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/12/18, itsme213 <itsme213 at hotmail.com>:
> > Do block closures work right in 3.9? 3.10?
>
> No, block closures are broken in every Squeak. You have to load the
> NewCompiler and activate two compiler settings to get working block
> closures. You'll have to live with some other issues though.
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
>
>
> > I am struggling with local variables used across nested blocks (Magma
> > #commit: within Seaside #callback: or Scriptaculous #triggerInPlaceEditor
> > etc.) and am finding it quite frustrating. I had some #fixTemps but am
> > totally guessing at when and why to use it.
> >
> > Thanks - Sophie
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>



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