From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4ef5a4648a4a3c50,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-12-19 22:58:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-04!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: cl1motorsports Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: what about having ada compile ada on the fly? Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:38:49 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-Id: User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3611 Date: 2003-12-20T00:38:49-06:00 List-Id: I've seen that there are discussions about enhancing the current ada95 spec. I was interested to know if there has been any talk of implementing an api for compiling ada code. I've read that some languages implement this feature(i think one was smalltalk), and i could see how that would be very useful for making an IDE that would load modules or scripts on the fly. I dunno much about the topic yet, my "Dragon Book" compiler book hasn't gotten here for Christmas yet. I have ideas for an IDE for linux and customizing the IDE with scripts that were compiled on the fly sounded like a good idea. I dunno just a thought *shrug*.