Re: Preprocessor
QuoteMstr - Danny Colascione <qtmstr(a)optonline.net> writes:
I like this. I like it a lot. Just a question --- do you think it
could be done in such a way that code could be loaded from shared
libraries
I believe that would be a very natural extension. In fact, now that
we have dynamic loading infrastructure, it would be silly not to use
it!
(This raises issues of having a compiler, optimizer switches, etc.,
but given the benefits, those issues are minor.)
and, with a (supported) compiler, .el files could be compiled and
loaded on the fly, just as .elc files are now?
`.el' files are not compiled and loaded on the fly. You have to
compile them manually. I would like to see another "level" of this
compilation that turns `.elc' files into `.ell' (by way of .c), which
you can proceed to load as usual.
Of course, the whole thing, being an optimization, would be entirely
optional.