Transcript is flexible and requires me to make choices.

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Mon Feb 9 13:55:31 EST 2004


On Feb 9, 2004, at 11:12 AM, tuviah snyder wrote:
> Well in some frameworks/languages this is a feature..but it would 
> greatly
> improve engine speed to be able to resolve which object gets the 
> message and
> prepare the parameters at compile time for certain user defined
> functions/handlers.enabling Rev to skip the process of looking up the
> handler/function in a lookup table each time it is called
>
> So I'm for any syntax which would enable me to precompile some 
> functions
> (such as math functions, ect) without losing the flexibility in cases 
> where
> I may want to dynamically intercept messages like mousemove in a 
> backscript.

Kinda like in C++ where the virtual keyword changes how the 
functions-object lookups are done at runtime? (totally from memory; I 
never was a good C++ programmer)

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