Re: OODL: Runtime Code Generation: Almost as evil as the secant

[Paul Sutton]

><<Place any old number between 1 and 5 into column 0.>>
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>but column 0 is for A, not a temp variable.

I got the impression that the problem is that do has to create temp 
variables and they get overwritten (or something along those lines).  Why 
not then specify a range of variable numbers that can only be used by do? 
 That or just append it to the table instead of putting it in the temp 
space?

I think do and send are vital to OpenCard, we just saw a huge backlash 
against Serf on the HC list because Dan wouldn't implement do.  People 
want do, we should give it to them.  It's obviously possible because HC 
did it and so does MetaCard (MetaCard notes that do statements could take 
up to 30 times longer than normal statements).

Adrian Sutton.