Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

Tony Finch wrote:
> "Rodney M. Bates" <rbates@southwind.net> wrote:
>
>>The one exception is the functional languages, where functions can be,
>>in effect, manipulated at runtime and then evaluated. ---


> That is not true for most modern functional programming languages
> (i.e. ones not descended from lisp) which are designed to be compiled
> to native code.


I would expect many implementations to do some runtime partial
evaluation when a curried function is partially applied. Does
it never happen? I am sure this is sometimes more than an
efficiency issue. Seems like it could affect termination,
for example.

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