[squeak-dev] Environments update

Colin Putney colin at wiresong.com
Tue Mar 5 20:54:58 UTC 2013


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> On 2013-03-05, at 02:40, Colin Putney <colin at wiresong.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> you mean changing compiler to compile
> >> "<obj> Foo" message send for accessing Foo name, instead of direct
> >> binding access?
> >>
> > Oh, I see. The source code still reads as a variable access, but the
> bytecode implements a message send.
>
> No, I think Igor is proposing to write something like "self environment
> Foo" to access Foo. Which is flexible, granted, but looks ugly.


That's what I thought too, but that obviously breaks compatibility with
existing code, which Igor claims his proposal does not.

Colin
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