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Re: Byte Codes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles L. Perkins)
Thu Aug 31 00:06:28 1995
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 95 19:38:47 -0400
From: "Charles L. Perkins" <clp@home.HarvardSq.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Cc: sgrmek@public.srce.hr
From: Smiljan Grmek - KSI ZGB <sgrmek@public.srce.hr>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 16:20:10 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: Re: Byte Codes
Of course. This is the way along which I considered a more efficient way
to do dynamic compilation - one would give as parameters a class name and
a method definition which would then be compiled and included in the
definition of the loaded class. The only available environment would be
the classes already loaded. This would give us all sorts of nice features
like iterators, selectors &c.
Alas, no - the price is probably too high. It would include invoking
methods by their symbolic names (bringing Java extremely close to Smalltalk)
and breaching the namespace separation of local and remote code security
feature.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Can you explain a little more what you mean here? I believe this relates to
the "perform: is unsafe" argument, and I want to understand it better.
Thanks,
Charles
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