Oct. 10, 2010
8:25 p.m.
On Oct 10, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
On 10 October 2010 15:39, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com> wrote:
The compiler uselessly insist on #ifNotNil: argument being a zero/one arg block. Thus we cannot write this xtream sentence
process ifNotNil: #terminate.
When the argument is not a block, Compiler should avoid inlining and just send a normal message.
+1
i am also missing:
someThing ifTrue: 1 ifFalse: 0
I hate this idea. Let the compiler doing optimizations and please do not mix implementation and language design. The ***semantics*** of iftrue: is to get a thunk (in scheme parlance) something whose evaluation is blocked. 1 is not that! Now the compiler could be smart and inline whatever. Stef