Re: [fonc] why are true,false,nil pseudovariables

2011-06-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:43 AM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote: Anyhow, I agree that there are plenty of optimizations available. But I don't believe we can replace a true/false/nil method invocation with a specialized bytecode in a typical open system. SELF did not have specialized

Re: [fonc] why are true,false,nil pseudovariables

2011-06-12 Thread David Barbour
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: SELF did not have specialized bytecodes for these. See http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/implementation.html --scott Why is this relevant? The opening question was about Squeak.

Re: [fonc] why are true,false,nil pseudovariables

2011-06-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:20 PM, David Barbour dmbarb...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 1:07 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: SELF did not have specialized bytecodes for these.  See http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/implementation.html  --scott Why is