[e-lang] Missing makeIOUMint.emaker in DonutLab?

[Dean Tribble]

Even though it currently only needs timer.now, a refactoring might need the
related functionality.  Unless there is an authority reduction in passing
just the single function, I htink it makes for a less clear abstraction.

On 5/14/07, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/14/07, Kevin Reid <kpreid at mac.com> wrote:
> > On May 14, 2007, at 16:02, Mark Miller wrote:
> >
> > >     ? def issuer := <donut:makeIOUIssuerAuthor>(timer)("Sugar")
> > >     # value: <issues Sugar>
> > >
> > > It became an author because it now bundles in some record keeping, and
> > > so needs an alleged timer which responds to a "now()" message with an
> > > integer.
> >
> > If that's all it will ever possibly need, why not pass just timer.now?
> >
> >    ? def issuer := <donut:makeIOUIssuerAuthor>(timer.now)("Sugar")
>
>
> That would have been a better design. I didn't think of it because I'm
> still not used to the verb-curry syntax.
>
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>     Cheers,
>     --MarkM
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