RE: Procedure types

From: Fyodor Tkachov <"Fyodor>
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:32:03 +0300

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BlackBox, F1, What's New:

. Procedure types can pose considerable implementation difficulties concerning the safe unloading of code. ..

That is, a procedure variable may contain a dynamically created reference to a procedure in the module being unloaded, even if the latter is not related by import with the variable's module.

Procedure variables are hard to get by without when teaching (I've just explained methods today).
Perhaps, procedure variables should be retained as low-level feature (with SYSTEM imported).

Cheers
Fyodor

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