On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > What is the difference between putting that definition in a file | > and subsequently issueing )co | | The interpreter does not have the treewalking machinery to dynamically | construct and use a category. The compiler does.
(1) But, they are not really two separate software. (2) the interpreter does what a category looks like syntactically. So, instead of aborting with an obscure message, it can just as well call the compiler sub-component with the parse tree and has the compiler does the construction and loads the resulting object. -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer