On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bill Page wrote:

| On 9/4/07, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
| > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bill Page wrote:
| >
| > | As an abstraction layer this makes very good sense. I believe that
| > | Aldor also provides an interpreter for this layer: "-gloop", right?
| > | But it is not clear to me how Axiom could make use of this.
| >
| > I believe the Aldor compiler can re-load FOAM files and work with
| > them.  `All' OpenAxiom needs to do is to generate FOAMs for linking
| > with the Aldor object files.
| >
| 
| Having Spad generate FOAM code seems like a rather radical (and
| interesting!) idea. How practical do you think it might be to make
| such deep changes to Spad?

At the moment, I don't know.  
But, the existing compiler can already generates Lisp FOAM for some
codes.  I suspect that was the work of Peter Broadbery -- anyone to concur?

-- Gaby


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