[M3devel] HEADS UP: Release engineering, was: Re: CM3 Release

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 09:56:34AM -0700, Mika Nystrom wrote:
> 
> I agree with what Hendrik says, but what about TYPECASE, ISTYPE,
> NARROW?  Those are necessary to make it possible to pass "pointers"
> with the low-order bit set outside of unsafe code.

Actually, it's possible to hack this inside unsafe code.  So the 
language chenges are not absolutely essential.  But if we have the right 
langauge changes, agreed, it would be pleasant not to have teo rewrite 
our code when the language changes finally freeze.
 
-- hendrik