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


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