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Lee Breisacher-2

copy, et. al.

I'm grinding my way through Object.st and the Blue Book. Can I skip #copy, #shallowCopy, and #deepCopy for now?

Robert Roland

Re: copy, et. al.

Yes, please skip those for now. They'll have to be implemented as primitives.

On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Lee Breisacher <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm grinding my way through Object.st and the Blue Book. Can I skip #copy, #shallowCopy, and #deepCopy for now?

bobcalco

Re: copy, et. al.

Out of curiosity, what is the mechanism in Redline for implementing primitives? I'm new to the code but eager to understand.

- Bob

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Robert Roland <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, please skip those for now. They'll have to be implemented as primitives.

On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Lee Breisacher <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm grinding my way through Object.st and the Blue Book. Can I skip #copy, #shallowCopy, and #deepCopy for now?

James Ladd

Re: copy, et. al.

When the compiler sees a primitive in the form

<primitive: 75>

It compiles this into a call to the static method on Primitives called p75.
The signature for primitive methods is the same for all primitives to keep things simple.

I hope this is clear?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Robert Calco <[hidden email]> wrote:

Out of curiosity, what is the mechanism in Redline for implementing primitives? I'm new to the code but eager to understand.

- Bob

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Robert Roland <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yes, please skip those for now. They'll have to be implemented as primitives.

On Dec 18, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Lee Breisacher <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I'm grinding my way through Object.st and the Blue Book. Can I skip #copy, #shallowCopy, and #deepCopy for now?