From: Jakub Hegenbart <kyosuke@...>
Date: 2005-12-11T09:21:26+09:00
Subject: Re: lib for optional static typing

Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> Oh, but the time it actually needs to compile and the megabytes of C
> it generates... not worth in the general case, IMO.
>
> And Stalin code still is far not as run-time dynamic as Ruby.  (Which
> is the real problem.  We should have something like "eval-on-compile".)
>   
Well, that's the "static language implementation" part. :-D You cold 
treat it as a compiler of a dynamic language into a fast static form, 
which is something the docs say anyway:

"It is designed to be used not as a development tool but rather as a 
means to generate efficient
executable images either for application delivery or for production 
research runs. "

It's worth in the final case, not in the general one. ;-)

Jakub