Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

On 18 Feb 2005 22:49:12 -0500, hannah@schlund.de (Hannah Schroeter)
wrote:


>Hello!
>
>George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:
>>[...]
>
>>Most (all?) of the recognized functional languages allow functions to
>>be redefined and anonymous functions to be created, but I don't know
>>whether they routinely permit the same kind of run time extension
>>possible in Lisp.
>
>Redefinition? When I look at Haskell, SML or ocaml, I don't see a way
>to redefine functions (in the sense that you can, at run time, change
>the definition).


Terminology? I didn't mean a function can be changed, I meant that
its name can be re-bound to a different function (possibly eliminating
all references to the first function).


George

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