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

David Ungar ungar at mac.com
Thu Dec 16 20:40:37 UTC 2021


Wonderful! I stand corrected. Craig was probably deriving that term from “directed resend.”

Thank you again, Jecel,

- David

> On Dec 16, 2021, at 10:11 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> 
> David Ungar wrote on Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:47:14 -0800
>> One tiny nit: according to my fallible memory, "directee" was called "delegatee".
> 
> My memory was wrong about the bytecodes being listed in Urs' thesis, but
> page 51 of Craig's is where I got my list from.
> 
> He did have
> 
> 4: DIRECTEE <parent name index>
> 
> On the other hand, bytecode 12 in Self 4.1.2 and later is certainly
> "delegatee" (which is why I had both names in my email).
> 
> Craig also lists bytecode 0 as "INDEX-EXTENSION" which I shortened to
> "extension" in my list, while in Self 4.1.2 it is just called "index".
> So I implied a rename but it wasn't really.
> 
> -- Jecel
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