They are parsed just like variables. Rather than finding their declaration in the method itself they are known to the compiler. Hence pseudovariables.
It also has the advantage that you don't have to pollute your literal frame since there are special bytecodes that handle them. Cheers, Toon On Jun 6, 2011 5:51 PM, "Ondrej Bilka" <nel...@seznam.cz> wrote: > Hello > As I started looking at squeak I am puzzled why true,false and nil are pseudovariables. Why they cannot be just constants like 0,1. > > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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