On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Levente Uzonyi <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Clément Bera wrote:
>
>  Actually this code:
>> True basicNew ifTrue: [ "some code" ]
>> works fine on the latest Pharo 3 because of Opal :)
>>
>
> So the Opal compiler lacks important optimizations. :)
>

Not at all. In fact, the the code is optimized and falls back to the normal
lookup in case of exceptional #mustBeBoolean, so the existing code keeps
running the same speed ;)


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> Levente
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>> But nice trick for the old compiler :)
>>
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>> 2013/6/26 Nicolas Cellier 
>> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@**gmail.com<[email protected]>
>> >
>>       Because you don't know the tricks... This one should be just fine
>>
>>       True basicNew ifTrue: [ "some code" ] yourself
>>
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>> 2013/6/26 Clément Bera <[email protected]>
>>       True basicNew ifTrue: [ "some code" ]
>>
>> hehe raises NonBooleanReceiver :)
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>> 2013/6/26 Camillo Bruni <[email protected]>
>>       why not, let's "forbid" them with an error message!
>>
>>       => maybe you can and error to #become: on nil / true / false as
>> well?
>>
>>       On 2013-06-26, at 14:20, Torsten Bergmann <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>       > Boolean new        -> error
>>       > Boolean basicNew   -> is possible
>>       >
>>       > should we care?
>>       >
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>> --
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