[m-dev.] I need names for a cons/3 replacement

Julien Fischer jfischer at opturion.com
Sun Jun 30 16:48:17 AEST 2024


On Sun, 30 Jun 2024 at 14:57, Zoltan Somogyi <zoltan.somogyi at runbox.com> wrote:
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> And, in the early phases of the compiler at least, we have cons/1 used for
> tuples as well, with the sym_name being {}. I am just now hunting a bug
> involving tuples. It would be nice if at least one of the names alluded to
> this possibility. I originally thought that this is possible only in too-long names,
> but I just now thought of one: how about heap_ctor/1?

Referring to the heap here seems rather low-level for the early phases of the
compiler, but I don't have a better suggestion.

Julien.


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