Hi Chris
I agree. I don't see where Andrew's question presents any real problem. I
suspect the primary problems with developing a compiler for REBOL are 1) The
language design (or at least implementation) are not yet complete and 2) The
semantics are somewhat irregular, so that there would be an awful lot of
special cases to deal with. Scheme is another language which, in fact, is
rather similar to REBOL in many ways (in REBOL 1.x, it was very similar,
including continuations) and Scheme comes with a compiler as well as an
interpreter (see the DrScheme package from Rice University
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/PLT/packages/drscheme/. It is free and rather
small (just a few MB) and supports threads, GUI programming, and tcp.
-Larry
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>
> >Try compiling this:
> >
> > do ask "Please enter some Rebol code: "
>
> FORTH and Lisp systems don't seem to have a problem with this. Most Common
Lisp
> systems I know are compiled and have interactive input. See Corman Lisp
for an
> example (http://www.corman.net). Generally the compiler is part of the run
time
> and compiles the entered code on the fly.
>
> Chris.
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