19 Dec
2007
19 Dec
'07
8:47 p.m.
Hallo,
On Dec 19, 2007 9:25 PM, John Meacham
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.
This is not actually true. You may be thinking of macros, but macro expansion time is before compile time. After compilation, not many, if any, modern Lisps keep the source around. Of course the old Lisp machines were different. Cheers, -- -alex http://www.ventonegro.org/