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[Brian Rice]

On Apr 13, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Brian Rice wrote:
> Currying, which has actually been in the image for a while, provides 
> methods <-, <-1, <-2, ... <-* to eliminate the Nth argument (* for 
> last) of the block given on the left, filling it with the value of the 
> right argument. It returns a new block. Right now, this is 
> unoptimized, but that should be fixed shortly with a byte-code 
> compiler extension.

Actually, it is optimized, and I was for some reason referring to the 
wrong file. This basically means it has really low overhead compared to 
creating a block wrapper in ordinary (non-implementation dependent) 
userland which is how the methods are defined.

All the compiler does is specialize generate: selector on: args from: 
msg patterns to create optimal bytecode - it's pretty cool, really, 
that we can do this.

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Brian T. Rice
LOGOS Research and Development
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