Thursday, May 11, 2017

Log 051117

I am trying to figure out why the constructor of a combinator is passed a pointer to the VM. It's not a bad design decision, any combinator might want to poll the VM for information for various reasons. Might have been operator overloading where you needed to inspect a global table? But, of course, combinators which reference the current runtime are hard to ship. I might want to cut that but at the risk that I would need to introduce it again at some stage later.

Stuff you know you don't know, stuff you don't know you don't know. And all that.

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