[Help-smalltalk] Re: [RFT] scripting improvements, part 2

[Stephen Compall]

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > I'd call it a feature, unless the scripting syntax will make it possible
> > for method definitions to refer to "lexical globals":
>
> No, it won't.  The temporaries don't leak, it is just an
> implementation detail that they are implemented using an
> internal BindingDictionary.

Oh, in that case I would expect, having no other input, that it stuffs 
the value in Namespace current, as messy as that may seem from a 
Smalltalk perspective.

> Sure, that was clear.  Your example could be actually as
> simple as
>
> a := 42.
> Object compile: 'gotcha "shouldn't compile!" ^a'.

So compiling a method captures the current temporaries dictionary?

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