Status of braces.

Duane Maxwell dmaxwell at launchpados.com
Sat Jul 17 22:05:36 UTC 1999


Alan Lovejoy writes:

>It must be about nine years ago I now that I first modified the ParcPlace
>compiler.  I made it evaluate code between braces at compile time, and
>insert the string value of the last statement eclosed by the braces as source
>code to be compiled.

[SNIP]

Unfortunately, this would have the effect of making the image based on
compile-time conditions, which could include things not true about the
runtime environment.  In your code example, the image would be
Windows-specific, with no obvious way to detect the methods which would
require recompilation.

-- Duane





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