[PD-dev] Re: [PD] VASP future

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> > The $-prefixes would really become scope indicators. $0-hello would access
> > the local table $0 using the t_symbol "hello". This would *not* create a
> > t_symbol "1000-hello" anymore.
> Am I right to assume that this would still keep "passing $0" as
> abstraction argument a viable operation? I use this idiom immensly
> often to let abstractions access data local to their parents. 

Yes, $1-hello will work as expected. In fact, everything will feel the
same as now, except that all "1000-"-prefixed symbols will be deleted when
the abstr.instance #1000 gets deleted. Then it's faster and cleaner to
achieve that effect by using two levels of hashes instead of one, because
else you have to scan *all* of the *big* table every time an
abstr.instance is deleted (!).

(with two levels, deleting n abstr.instances takes O(n) instead of
O(n*n)).

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