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Re: %MY (was What's MY.line?)

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Dan Sugalski
Date:
July 11, 2002 16:55
Subject:
Re: %MY (was What's MY.line?)
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At 4:43 PM -0400 7/11/02, Melvin Smith wrote:
>The only real use I can see of %MY is debugging. If people are going
>to take handles to pads and modify lexicals in closures, continuations
>and routines from the outside, it probably means that the item needs to
>be a class.

Yeah, I'm expecting it to be used mainly for introspective things.

It's also useful, at compile time, for changing the caller's 
environment, but that's not what we're worried about, I expect.
-- 
                                         Dan

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