Bill Page wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> >> >
> >> > In reasonably new FriCAS:
> >> >
> >> > )read ax.boot
> >> >
> > Bill Page wrote:
> >>
> >> Very cool. But isn't it odd to make this a function of )read ? =A0I
> >> would have expected )compile ...
> >>
> >
> > Originally )read would translate .boot file to lisp and load
> > the lisp file. =A0This meant that the code was executed by
> > Lisp interpreter. =A0IMHO loading files to be interpreted
> > makes little sense, so I changed ')read' so that the
> > Lisp file is compiled and loaded in compiled form.
>
> Sometimes it is still surprising what was never documented in Axiom...
You never met concept of "intentionaly undocumented"? AFAICS
Boot was considered internal detail which users should not
know about.
> > Note that this is consistent with .input files, which
> > are also compiled by default.
> >
>
> In what sense are .input files compiled?
.input files are first translated to Lisp (unless something
stops type inference) and then by default Lisp is compiled.
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Waldek Hebisch
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