types and operators

[Nathan Hawkins]

On Sat, 27 Apr 1996, Francois-Rene Rideau wrote:

> > Please excuse the redundancy and rambling in this message. This whole 
> > topic is getting very confusing to me.
> >
>    Maybe someone (me?) should write an article on how to do the GC,
> but I must first finish my WNO article.
>    If you have any problem, please begin to write the system
> without any actual GC,
> but a few GC constraints (like the pointer/integer stuff):
> we can add the GC afterwards, and your code will be a good base
> for further collective work...

This thread has got _way_ beyond what I can deal with. :-(
I'm going to try and follow your advice, and try to get time to put 
together some code. I have a source file with a bunch of primitives, but 
no colon-compiler, written in gas. I'll start with that and see what I 
can get done.

Unfortunately, I'm likely to be _very_ tied up for the next couple weeks. 
(I have a slight situation developing with a government agency... Not a 
law enforcement agency, though. ;)

Re: writing about how to do GC, don't worry about it too much... Somebody 
must have written some introductory texts, I just haven't found them yet. 
I keep running into advanced discussions of various ways to do it, 
written in jargon. (You know, so-and-so's paper presented to the ACM on 
how to do real-time GC using some special case of a rare GC algorithm no 
one uses... That sort of thing.)

Sigh.

*utsl*