Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

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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