On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 10:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
The script limitation is the one, single, sole, solitary, and only protection that Runtime has.
I understand.
There's also the issue of abstract versus reality. In the 16 or more years in which I have been writing x-talk scripts, I can honestly say I have never once needed an 11-line "value" function. I can't imagine the convoluted script that would require something like that.
I agree in general. It's not an inconvenience for me.
But there are plenty of legitimate uses for dynamic compilation, otherwise the eval-like commands (do,value) would not exist in transcript/perl/ruby/lisp/scheme/rexx/tcl and others!
There was a whole generation of AI researchers and LISP programmers who learned that self-modifying code is a way to do some pretty cool stuff. I'm not really one of those people, but I think it's worth noting.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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