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Language design with Leo White

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

Skarler

The basic idea of both language features is that you look for something based on its type. In Skarler, the places where they search for that int are complicated because you have the type of the thing that the method is being called on. I'm not sure there's much they could do about this but in modern places it's got a very simple motion of scope. You're just looking kind of basically up the file to see if it's there.

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