On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Daniel Herring <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 9 Oct 2012, at 22:44, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll < >> juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.**com <[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> In an extremely open-minded setup, where any class is prone to change, >> not only their structure, but also their metaclass, it would seem that a >> local declaration of the kind (DECLARE (MY-CLASS FOO)) would be totally >> useless. >> > > Slava Pestov did a few really nice things with Factor. In particular, he > had a mechanism that would dynamically trigger recompilation when "open > coded/inlined" details changed (e.g. macro redefintion). This declaration > would be a good point to store such a hook in CL... > > http://factorcode.org/ > http://docs.factorcode.org/**content/article-vocabs.**refresh.html<http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-vocabs.refresh.html> > http://docs.factorcode.org/**content/article-tuple-**redefinition.html<http://docs.factorcode.org/content/article-tuple-redefinition.html> In an ideal world, yes, but ECL must currently stick to an environment (C) which does not allow for dynamic recompilation (no clang embedded yet). I know that SBCL plays some tricks and we have used our own tricks in this sense, but I expected that something more sensible could be agreed upon. Juanjo -- Instituto de Física Fundamental, CSIC c/ Serrano, 113b, Madrid 28006 (Spain) http://juanjose.garciaripoll.googlepages.com
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