Re: Multiple functions: was the gc

["D Burgess" <dburgess@...>]

I agree with this. My issue is that I am potentially operating in a
memory constrained environment and I would rather avoid the
multiple copies of the functions in each thread. (maybe there
is a way to avoid this that I do not know about).

David Burgess

On 8/23/06, Mark Hamburg <mhamburg@adobe.com> wrote:
> A way to tear off new copies of a function would definitely be useful. For
> example, I've got a class system that allows for arbitrary sequences of
> mixin classes. It would be great if when constructing a class out of mixins,
> I could tear off fresh copies of the functions and give them environments
> that would represent information such as their position in the mixin
> sequence.
>
> Without support for creating multiple versions of the same function with
> different environments, one could almost replace setfenv with an extra
> parameter to load to set the environment on the newly loaded function.
>
> Mark