July 30, 2000
12:07 p.m.
Hasn't backward compatibility already been broken for 2.0? So why not break it a little more? It always seemed odd to me that the current line number is always kept up to date, even though 99.999% of the time, no one will care. Why not just keep a small table that holds the offset in the bytecode at which each line starts, and look it up when it's needed? --amk