Re: Jim Fulton : Extensible compound statements -- new exec flavor

Marc Wachowitz (mw@ipx2.rz.uni-mannheim.de)
12 Feb 1995 14:31:46 GMT

Jim Fulton wrote:
> > No please, let's keep the normal (i.e. without leading and trailing "__")
> > name space clean, and signal magic invocations by special names. I have a
> > poor memory, and with more time there will be more and more special names

> But this is not "magic" behavior. Just because an object follows a
> protocol does not mean the methods in the protocol have to have funny
> names. Hear we are describing objects with "enter" and "leave"
> semantics.

By "magic" I meant here that those methods are called from the runtime
system, not explicitly. (Of course one may also call them explicitly.)

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