Re: Huge code chunk in IoVMInit.c.

--- In [email protected], Steve Dekorte <steve@...> wrote:
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> On 2011-05-26 Thu, at 03:58 AM, Jan-Paul Bultmann wrote:
> > Why is there this huge chunk of io code in IoVMInit.c, please don't tell me that it has to be done this way :(
> > Why can't the vm load a Init.io file, why does it have to be encoded in a gigantic c string that is full of escaped chars.
> > I'm scared.....
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> It's just some of the core Io standard lib that gets embedded into the vm. 
> It doesn't have to be like that - it dates back to when we had the ability to build Io into a single static executable.
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I thought that was weird too when I saw it, although I figured that was the explanation.  Maybe the core of Io should itself be an addon, that way it Init.io could live in a folder addons/core/io.