Re: [Chicken-users] making lambdas more introspective

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 03:54:43AM -0400, Michele Simionato wrote:
> > One issue is that of course, the compiled version should have this data
> > removed.  I'm not sure if currently all extended procedure data is removed
> > or not.
> 
> Why do you say so?  I have compiled the examples shown before, and it works 
> just
> fine. Have you reasons to believe that procedure data behaves
> differently in compiled code?

No, I don't.

I meant that this information is most useful in the interpreter, when you're
not sure about a function's signature.  In compiled code the signature will
rarely be requested and they'll only sit there eating memory, so IMHO it's
better to remove this extended info by default.

Regards,
Peter
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