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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Compile time executed functions
Date: 27 Mar 2001 20:14:45 +0200
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Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> If you are talking about being able to run pretty much *any* code at
> compile time, no that can't be done with just a "trick". I don't
> know of any language in existance (but I suppose there probably is
> one somewhere) that will let you do that.

FORTH and Common Lisp (at least implementations which support
compilation) can do this.