Re: Different behaviour between interactive and not interactive usage

On 2012-03-03, at 3:30 PM, norbertmuellerde wrote:

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> --- In [email protected], Jeremy Tregunna <jeremy.tregunna@...> wrote:
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> > It's not a bug. Here's why. Operator transformation happens at compile time. In the REPL this is each time you hit enter. However, in a file, it's when the file is initially loaded, before any code is evaluated. As such, you'd have to put your operator table modifications in a separate file, which then loads your other file. Inconvenient, but it's the only way to do this.
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> > Regards,
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> > Jeremy Tregunna
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> Hi Jeremy,
> thanks for your quick response,
> I wasn't aware that there is such a thing as compile time in an interpreted language. But thinking about it, it seems to make sense.
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The compile time in Io is when tokenization occurs, construction of the AST (messages) and when the operator shuffler runs. It's very lightweight.

Regards,

Jeremy Tregunna