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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions
Date: 28 Mar 2001 11:54:47 +0200
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sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de (Georg Bauhaus) writes:

> Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de) wrote:
> 
> : because we're used to the fact that 'run time' follows 'compile time',
> : and not the other way round.  With CL (and FORTH as well, and most
> : Java implementations), this is no longer true.
> 
> And don't forget SNOBOL4 :-)

Hmm, I've installed a SNOBOL4 compiler on my machine a few months ago
but didn't find time to look at the programming language.  I'm
surprised that you can invoke the compiler during runtime.  Do you
have an example?  Which language construct is used for that?