On 20 May 2013 19:17, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 20, 2013, at 8:13 PM, Frank Shearar <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Like with ifTrue:, whileTrue: and friends: you can still use futures >> in Squeak if you don't have FutureNode in your image, but things will >> just run slower. >> > > But there is no IfTrueNode, either. > > The AST models the grammar of the language, that's why it is called Syntax > tree….
Sure. I have no idea why it's implemented that way. Perhaps it was easier or desirable to keep the transformation out of the base image or something. Josh Gargus might know. I would imagine that in Opal you wouldn't need to do that :) You'd hook in custom emitters somewhere, and be done. frank > Marcus > > >
