Re: The compilation approach in modern languages

"Rodney M. Bates" <rbates@southwind.net>
16 Feb 2005 20:55:13 -0500

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From: "Rodney M. Bates" <rbates@southwind.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Feb 2005 20:55:13 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 05-02-053 05-02-056 05-02-065
Keywords: functional, practice
Posted-Date: 16 Feb 2005 20:55:13 EST

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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