Re: meta-compiler
[email protected] (Albert van der Horst)
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth |
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On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 02:34:03PM -0400, Mark Slicker wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2005, Albert van der Horst wrote: > > >I miss some premises here, that maybe are implicit. > >So what is the idea about > >- where is the source, presumably in colorforth blocks? > > Yes colorForth source. > > >- how to handle bootcode. > > > >But there is a problem here. The editor is in colorforth. So the > >new colorforth may require tricks from the editor that are not yet > >present (say e.g. a new color). Right? > > > > I'm not sure what you're asking. The editor and compiler both agree on the > source format, other than this there is little interaction between the > two. The editor can easily be taken out of the kernel, and in fact Chuck > calls it a historical accident the editor currently resides in the kernel. A historical accident, is that a negative assessment, i.e. something that preferably be changed? (This is just my understanding of English). About my question. Suppose you want to add a color. Now the source has to be generated by the old colorforth. So its editor must know that new color? <SNIP> Groetjes Albert -- Albert van der Horst,Oranjestr 8,3511 RA UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- like all pyramid schemes -- ultimately falters. [email protected] http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst