Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
16 Feb 2005 20:53:47 -0500

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From: Ivan Boldyrev <boldyrev@cgitftp.uiggm.nsc.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Feb 2005 20:53:47 -0500
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References: 05-02-053 05-02-056 05-02-062
Keywords: OOP, functional practice
Posted-Date: 16 Feb 2005 20:53:47 EST

On 9020 day of my life Carter Schonwald wrote:
> The runtime creation of a function merely requires something along the
> lines of packing together a pointer to the beginning of the function's
> body and a pointer to the current variable environment into a tuple.
>
> If you meant something else, could you please clarify?


Lisp can coerce list to function. List is generated at runtime ->
function is generated at runtime. The feature rocks, but
implementation must use full compiler or at least interpreter.


But language like [Something]ML and Haskell can be (and are) compiled
statically.
--
Ivan Boldyrev


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