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- Item 8019014 16-Aug-89 14:37
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- From: BURBECK.S Burbeck, Steve,APL
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: Re: Re: Object Pascal +
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- Kurt, Andy, Jeff,
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- Yes perform: isn't Object Pascal. But it might be Object Pascal +. I agree
- that a clean way to, in effect, do a perform: could be very useful at times;
- the simplest example is some sort of scripting at runtime. A completely
- general mechanism (i.e., one in which any message may be performed at runtime)
- does indeed make dead-stripping impossible. But there is no reason that we
- couldn't have an explicit mechanism for saying which class/methods can be
- performed. Then those methods would not be stripped. With instantiation by
- name we already have to explicitly stop dead stripping, and the mechanism is a
- bit kludgy. Doing things right will require changes to the compiler and/or
- linker. But it could be done.
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- Steve Burbeck
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