Re: [Hecl-devel] Hecl compiled to Java (not bytecode)?

[David W. <da...@de...>]

>> > The trade of: no eval.
>>
>> Exactly - for some people, that's a dealbreaker, as the whole point of
>> including a scripting language is runtime evaluation of code.  For
>> others, they'd just be happy to write their apps in something other
>> than Java, and would be pretty happy.
>
> Actually, a script compiled with TJC does allows 'eval', it just passes that off to the Jacl
> interpreter for evalulation.   Similarly, not all commands are compiled to Java, many
> use the interpreter at runtime.  So yes, a TJC compiled script always includes the
> Jacl interpreter, and requires it for runtime.

Aha - thanks for clarifying that.  So, yeah, for smaller systems,
that's a fairly large bunch of code to drag along.  I wonder if it
could be hacked, though, to take Hecl as input and include the Hecl
interpreter, which is a lot smaller.  Probably not a weekend
project... but potentially an interesting one.

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