From: Mark Probert <probertm@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T07:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Nature of ruby


Hi.

At 05:15 AM 12/19/2002 +0900, Dan wrote:
>At 2:25 PM +0900 12/18/02, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
>>
>>So let me get this straight.  A *compiled* Ruby program executes eval by
>>running an *interpreter*.  Awesome...
>
>Nope. A compiled Ruby program executes eval by running the embedded 
>compiler and executing the compiled code. Programs can generate executable 
>code internally on the fly--it's not *that* difficult...

In fact this is the heart of Forth, where you create new words
that are compiled on the fly.

Though I am sure that Dan has something more sophisticated in
mind than a simple TIL compiler using sub-routine threading... :-)

-mark.