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From: an397723@anon.penet.fi (The Unknown Ranger)
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Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:19:23 UTC
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First, my thanks to those who answered my questions, however trivial they 
may seem.  I am currently studying several Smalltalk books, but there are 
some questions that none of them answer explicitly.

To those who welcomed me to the Smalltalk community with remarks such as 
"clown mask", "CB radio handles", and "trolling for resumes", I ask you to 
reconsider.  I am just a guy trying to learn Smalltalk on my own time and 
with my own dime, who has a job he needs to protect.

Now back to bytecodes:

I read Chapter 26 of the Blue Book. Page 556 says that the bytecodes for 
Rectangle right are
1  206  124.  I would assume that anyone who implements a Smalltalk 
interpreter could use different bytecodes since they will also be writing 
the virtual machine.  My question is, then, why are bytecodes proprietary 
information?  What secrets is a vendor divulging by publishing the bytecodes 
for Rectangle right?

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