It is impossible (undecidable) to tell precisely which functions a function will call. Therefore you will need to consider not exactly set of functions that a function will call, but some superset of that. Why not take as your superset all functions? That is, always compile all functions.
On Aug 9, 6:54 pm, CuppoJava <patrickli_2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > Just for educational purposes, I'm writing a simple lisp compiler and > am stuck on a small problem. > > I'm trying to write a function called (compile-function), which will > take a function as input and compile it. > > If that function calls other functions, I would like (compile- > function) to automatically compile the called functions as well. > > But I'm stuck on how to tell whether a function will be called or not. > Particularly when functions are passed around as objects. > > So the question is this: Given a function f, how can I find all the > functions that f depends on? > > Thanks a lot for your help > -Patrick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
