Re: Meta-design

[Dan Sugalski]

At 07:49 AM 12/6/00 -0800, Daniel Chetlin wrote:
>Simply deciding that `eval STRING' is "unimplemented" on these
>theoretical ports and binary compiles is the best idea I've heard yet,
>but we should remember that `require' is built on `eval STRING'.

That's not necessarily the case. If we allow for pre-compiled modules (and 
that's one of the design goals) then require (and do) can still function 
with those. A palm might not be able to load in foo.pl, but it could load 
in foo.plc.

                                        Dan

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