Bootstrapped VM doing file IO

[Brian Rice]

On May 24, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Brian Rice wrote:

> Cool, thank you.
>
>> - In all the places where I use (integer >> 1) I should probably be
>> using a macro
>
> ObjectPointer_asSmallInt, an inline method (er, C function).

Incidentally, you can find this as the asSmallInt method for 
ObjectPointers in layout.slate. This module defines most of your basic 
heap data manipulation methods.

I need to make theses sources more accessible in some way; they're 
generally pretty easy to work with, but so far only Lee and I really 
mess with them, for reasons that have been obvious. It shouldn't remain 
so, though; we spent a lot of time making sure it was reasonable to 
work with (it's heavenly compared to Squeak's Slang!).

Anyway, feel free to bring up how-to questions for extending Slate. 
Maybe I'll try to write little articles or weblog posts on it. 
Opinions?

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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