From: Brent Roman <brent@...>
Date: 2007-07-18T03:56:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: runtime-modifying Kernel methods should be keywords

Just a follow up to on the idea of disallowing the
aliasing of :eval and similar methods...

Rather than making this a static switch specified
apriori, could the VM / compiler agressively optimize
until the "internal" methods (:eval, etc.) were
aliased/redefined.  When an alias or redefinition
was detected, it would output a warning to the
user that performance will suffer and disable
the problematic optimizations.

Or, would this also require regenerating code for all
the previously compiled methods that invoked
:eval and their ilk?

- brent