Re: copy on write

[jecel@lsi.usp.br (Jecel Mattos de Assumpcao Jr.)]

> >> perhaps easier to read is:
> >> 
> >> "new point"
> >
> >The problem with this is that we are back where we started: you are
> >more likely to accidently omit a word rather than add one. Omitting
> >"new" in your suggestion is as bad as forgetting "copy" now.
> 
> Nonsense. The suggested mechanism means that globals need no longer be
> a parent slot of lobby. Omitting "new" gets you an error.

Ok. That's an idea. You have to say "globals point" to get to
the prototype, right? I hadn't noticed you made globals into
a non-parent slot.

- Jecel