[Self-interest] general ifTrue (was: Proposal for a modernized Self dialect)

David Ungar ungar at mac.com
Wed Dec 15 19:00:57 UTC 2021


My memory is fuzzy, but I think that Jecel may be closer to the truth, here.
I was proud that original Self has only 8 bytecodes, but I recall expanded it for Klein.

> On Dec 15, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> 
> Mario Wolczko wrote on Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:53:48 -0800
>> The jump bytecodes were introduced for Pep, the Java emulator.
> 
> Ah, I had thought only the jump indexed (which I thought would be for
> implementing case statements) was for Pep and the rest was for making
> Self more "interpreter friendly". Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> -- Jecel
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