Subject: Re: suspend() thougths

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1993 09:24:16 -0700

(On the idea of a suspend_if_needed() primitive.)

Adding bits increases the complexity of the system in a bad way --
one argument might be that "if we can get away with adding builtins rather
than verb-bits to do some job X, then we should.  Otherwise, we'll end up with
100 new bits, which will be harder to understand than 100 new builtins."

BUT the purpose here is to avoid having to sprinkle calls to suspend() in
loops.  Avoiding having to use a builtin or other special MOO code at all is 
what I'm really aiming at here.  So it still seems 'a' bits are the right 
thing.

--joe
-K*