[e-lang] makeProxy reveals implicit sendOnly

Mark S. Miller markm at cs.jhu.edu
Sun Jun 3 22:37:18 EDT 2007


Kevin Reid wrote:
> I had understood that it is intended that <- is optimized to sendOnly  
> when the result is not used; if so, then either the conditions for  
> this optimization must be well-defined, or makeProxy must be unsafe.

Good catch. I think I agree that these are the only viable choices. Of the 
two, I mildly prefer the first: we should specify the conditions in which this 
optimization happens.

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