My point is that you could just Object have methods true,false and nil Any reasonably optimalizing compiler would replace them with bytecode. On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:05:13PM +0200, Toon Verwaest wrote: > They are parsed just like variables. Rather than finding their declaration > in the method itself they are known to the compiler. Hence pseudovariables. > > It also has the advantage that you don't have to pollute your literal frame > since there are special bytecodes that handle them. > > Cheers, > Toon > On Jun 6, 2011 5:51 PM, "Ondrej Bilka" <nel...@seznam.cz> wrote: > > Hello > > As I started looking at squeak I am puzzled why true,false and nil are > pseudovariables. Why they cannot be just constants like 0,1. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > fonc mailing list > > fonc@vpri.org > > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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