write to memory (cheap) during execution and then only copy out to storage (expensive) what's needed

[ivoysey]

this should allow us to have a linked-list example working; after #371

[ivoysey]

solc outputs something like this for a setter that takes one integer argument,

                case 0x60fe47b1
                {
                    // set(uint256)                                                                                              

                    if callvalue() { revert_error_ca66f745a3ce8ff40e2ccaf1ad45db7774001b90d25810abd9040049be7bf4bb() }
                    let param_0 :=  abi_decode_tuple_t_uint256(4, calldatasize())
                    fun_set_13(param_0)
                    let memPos := allocate_unbounded()
                    let memEnd := abi_encode_tuple__to__fromStack(memPos  )
                    return(memPos, sub(memEnd, memPos))

which pulls the argument from the stack. it's not clear to me how to do this when the first argument is the added implicit this argument that allows us to allocate into memory. from the outside there may not even be an instance of the object created, and in general actually won't be, so what would you even try to pass there?

[ivoysey]

this issue doesn't make sense with respect to the current design as stated, so i'm going to close it as part of a clean up pass on the project board