Re: call_function() and callers()

• Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 10:44:29 PDT
• From:
  Pavel Curtis <pavel@parc.xerox.com>
• cc: moo-cows.PARC@xerox.com
• In-Reply-to: "Brian Buchanan's message of \"Sun, 21 Apr 1996 21:08:25 PDT\" <199604220408.VAA23833@wasteland.calbbs.com>h"

Brian Buchanan writes:
> Using call_function() to call a builtin which calls verbs (move(),
> specifically, but probably create() and recycle() too) causes the callers()
> list to be erroneous.  When I do call_function("move",#2,#11), #11's
> enterfunc sees the callers() stack as {{#-1, "call_function", #-1, #-1, #2},
> ... }.  It would be a lot more consistent and acurate perhaps if it looked
> like {{#-1, "move", #-1, #-1, #2}, {#-1, "call_function", #-1, #-1, #2},
> ... } IMO.

Arguably correct, but nontrivial to implement.  I won't be trying to fix this
on my watch.  Maybe the next maintainer...

	Pavel

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