Re: What is the future of Compiler technology?

"Tommy Thorn" <tommy.thorn@gmail.com>
5 Jul 2006 15:15:13 -0400

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From: "Tommy Thorn" <tommy.thorn@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Jul 2006 15:15:13 -0400
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References: 06-06-04406-06-051 06-06-056 06-06-064
Keywords: OOP
Posted-Date: 05 Jul 2006 15:15:13 EDT

Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> And it shows how Microsoft brainwashing works. Have you checked
> Smalltalk it has full closures from it's beginning,


No. In standard Smalltalk, blocks don't capture free variables. I'm
not sure what happens with those when the block survives the creating
context. Some commercial variants of Smalltalk have extended the block
notion to be true closures.


Scheme, SML, O'Caml, Haskell, etc all had true closures from day one.


I agree, attempts at shoehorning closures into languages originally
designed without them have never been very successful.


Tommy


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