Bill Page wrote:
>
> Very cool. But isn't it odd to make this a function of )read ? I
> would have expected )compile ...
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Waldek Hebisch <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Ralf Hemmecke wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Can someone tell me how exactly that should be done?
> >> In particular, assume that I want to recompile ax.boot from within
> >> fricas. Of course, I'd also like to immediately use the (modified) boot
> >> function.
> >
> > In reasonably new FriCAS:
> >
> > )read ax.boot
> >
Originally )read would translate .boot file to lisp and load
the lisp file. This meant that the code was executed by
Lisp interpreter. IMHO loading files to be interpreted
makes little sense, so I changed ')read' so that the
Lisp file is compiled and loaded in compiled form.
Note that this is consistent with .input files, which
are also compiled by default.
Concerning ')compile': logically it should just compile,
without loading anything. But somewhat orignal authors
thought that combining several operations is more
convenient.
--
Waldek Hebisch
[email protected]
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