On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Henrik Johansen <henrik.s.johansen@veloxit.no> wrote:

I really don't see what good could come of it being available in general�

I think it is a nice feature to have. If you just have it in the VM nobody will see it unless the guy load all VM stuff and checks the code.
For example, for certain hacky scenario, I wanted to create proxies which have exactly the same identitiHash as the object they proxify. That primitive let me do that. I was lucky that I asked in the mailing list, otherwise I would have miss it.
And it is not that we do not have dangerous methods in the image because we do. So... I would include it since I think it could be useful for someone doing hacky stuff, but as Stef says, I would put a really really clear comment.

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Cheers,
Henry

On Jan 18, 2012, at 8:16 26AM, stephane ducasse wrote:

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>> Hi guys. Becuase of some work I am doing with proxies, I would like to be able to set a specific identityHash to a proxy instance. I can add this primitive in my VM, but I was thinking if this could be of a general interest also?
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>> It already exists. �See primitiveSetIdentityHash in InterpreterPrimitives. �Primitive # 161.
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>> Thank you so much Eliot. You even save my time of coding it ;) �I should have checked before...I always forget about InterpreterPrimitives hahaha
>> So...Pharaoers... do you want the image side of the primitive and some tests? �I can provide that if desired (in my opinion I would include it)
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