Re: Non-sequential compilation.

macrakis@osf.org (Stavros Macrakis) writes:
>I'm not sure it's terribly useful to read the whole _source_ into memory
>at once; after all, you only want to do tokenization and parsing once. On
>the other hand, it may well be useful to keep large intermediate
>representations around for global optimization.


It is entirely possible that reading the whole source in could be useful
in languages where the lexical and syntactic rules are not static - for
instance where new types may be declared - or new operators with arbitary
precidence; especially if you want to allow them to be used before they
are declared.


Thomas
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