[Vm-dev] Integration of the BlockClolsure>>value primitive
Mathieu Suen
mathk.sue at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 19:00:56 UTC 2007
Thanks
Mth
On Jul 27, 2007, at 8:45 PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> While I agree with both of your comments neither should stop us
> from looking at the code to see if it looks reasonable.
>
> Cheers,
> - Andreas
>
> John M McIntosh wrote:
>> I've always thought that part of the process of providing full
>> closure should be some smalltalk code to run
>> on existing images where it looks for code that could be affected
>> by moving to full closure. The problem with
>> providing the primitives is that you don't know within your close
>> base if you are abusing non-full closure
>> in interesting ways which will now break your application subtle
>> ways.
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>> Could you please post your changes for review first?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Andreas
>>>
>>> Mathieu Suen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> The last week I have made a primitive for BlockClosure>>#value
>>>> and #value:with:….
>>>> BlockClosure is the object that behave like the BlockCoontext
>>>> except it provide full closure.
>>>> So I would like to integrate my changes inside VMMake.
>>>> For the time being I use primitive 576 and 577.
>>>> Can you add my changes into the main stream of VMMaker?
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Mth
>> --
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>> John M. McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com>
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