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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Fast lexers/slow hardware/better environments (Re: Questionable ...)
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Matthew T. Russotto (russotto@wanda.vf.pond.com) wrote:
> In article <erkyrathE3CGtC.Gn2@netcom.com>,
> Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@netcom.com> wrote:

> }set of file operations, or any number of other Z-machine limitations that 
> }I have notes on How To Do Better As Soon As I Have Time. Java VM output 
> }coupled with an IF runtime class solves all of that, with no change to 
> }existing Inform source code.)

> How do you handle Inform's typelessness?  The JVM insists on a
> rigid distinction between object references and integers. Inform
> emphatically does not.

Reply hazy. Ask again later. I Don't Have Time.

(I have an answer, yes.)

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