Re: [Squeak-VMdev] right to left (was: Versiojn 4 changes)

[Avi B. <av...@be...>]

On Apr 8, 2004, at 7:32 AM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> My Neo Smalltalk evaluates right-to-left. That lets me get by with just
> one send instruction. The first instructions in a compiled method grab
> the right number of arguments from the caller's stack. Unless it is a
> short leaf method - in that case it can skip creating its own stack and
> run directly with the caller's stack. This is a very common case since
> I currently do very little inlining (just the usual ifTrue: stuff).

Not that this really matters at all, but - this also makes implementing 
Forth-like languages (see my Sorrow package on SM) easier.