
19 Dec
2007
19 Dec
'07
8:27 p.m.
On Dec 20, 2007 1:23 AM, Jake McArthur
On Dec 19, 2007, at 6:25 PM, John Meacham wrote:
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:58:00PM +0300, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
I just want the sistem to be able to print one of these expressions ! Its this too much to ask ? Yes, 'cause it means you want to embed almost all source code into the compiled program. So ? So, I don't know any compiler of any language which does it.
Actually, it is a pretty fundamental feature of the lisp-derived languages that they can self modify their own source, and hence keep their own source representation all the way through runtime.
I'm not really a Lisp programmer, but don't you mean AST instead of source?
It's Lisp, they're basically the same thing!