On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert@freudenbergs.de> wrote:

On 2013-03-05, at 02:40, Colin Putney <colin@wiresong.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> you mean changing compiler to compile
>> "<obj> Foo" message send for accessing Foo name, instead of direct
>> binding access?
>>
> Oh, I see. The source code still reads as a variable access, but the bytecode implements a message send.

No, I think Igor is proposing to write something like "self environment Foo" to access Foo. Which is flexible, granted, but looks ugly.

That's what I thought too, but that obviously breaks compatibility with existing code, which Igor claims his proposal does not.

Colin