"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1994 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

Block subclass:#CheapBlock

       instanceVariableNames:'selfValue method'

       classVariableNames:''

       poolDictionaries:''

       category:'Kernel-Methods'

!

!CheapBlock class methodsFor:'documentation'!

copyright

"

 COPYRIGHT (c) 1994 by Claus Gittinger

	      All Rights Reserved

 This software is furnished under a license and may be used

 only in accordance with the terms of that license and with the

 inclusion of the above copyright notice.   This software may not

 be provided or otherwise made available to, or used by, any

 other person.  No title to or ownership of the software is

 hereby transferred.

"

!

version

    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/CheapBlock.st,v 1.8 1995-11-11 14:27:49 cg Exp $'

!

documentation

"

    CheapBlocks are blocks which do not need their home-context

    (i.e. blocks that do not access any method arguments or method locals).

    Since they have no reference to the home, they must store their

    creating method explicitely - otherwise, the system had no chance of

    finding the source-position of the block.

    Instance variables:

      selfValue   <Object>          value to use for self if its a copying block

      method      <Method>          method where block was created 

    NOTICE: layout known by runtime system and compiler - do not change

"

! !

!CheapBlock methodsFor:'accessing'!

selfValue

    "return the copied self"

    ^ selfValue

!

method

    "return the receivers home method.

     Thats the method where the block was created."

    ^ method

! !

!CheapBlock methodsFor:'printing & storing'!

printOn:aStream

    "append a a printed representation of the block to aStream"

    |class selector pair|

    "

     cheap blocks have no home context, but a method instead

    "

    aStream nextPutAll:'[] in '.

    "

     find out, for which class this method was for ...

    "

    method notNil ifTrue:[

	pair := method who.

	pair notNil ifTrue:[

	    class := pair at:1.

	    selector := pair at:2.

	    aStream nextPutAll:(class name , '-' , selector).

	    aStream nextPutAll:' (optimized)'.

	    ^ self

	].

    ].

    "

     currently, some cheap blocks don't know where they have been created

    "

    aStream nextPutAll:' ??? (optimized)'.

    ^ self

! !