Re: User-reserved element in byte code vectors

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
> > It can be useful to store user-defined objects in a byte code
> > vector.
> I can't think of why that would be useful.  Could you give us some
> examples?

It can be useful when compiling languages other than Emacs Lisp to
byte code.  In my case, I'm writing a Common Lisp compiler, and it
would be nice to store in the byte code vector things like a closure
environment, a function name, the original lambda expression, and
other meta data that Common Lisp can associate with a function object.

-- 
Lars Brinkhoff,         Services for Unix, Linux, GCC, HTTP
Brinkhoff Consulting    http://www.brinkhoff.se/