Re: [Axiom-developer] new boot and old boot

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

C Y <address@hidden> writes:

| --- Gabriel Dos Reis <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
| > 
| > Hi,
| > 
| >   I have been experimenting with compiling src/interp with New Boot.
| > Among many things, there is the nit that "of" is a keyword in New
| > Boot (src/Makefile.pamphlet does not document that).  Consequently,
| > the definition of the function str2Tex g-util.boot has to be modified
| > not to use "of".
| 
| Interesting!  That would certainly make getting ANSI working simpler -
| only one Boot->Lisp translation to clean up.  If the SPAD compiler is
| itself written in Boot, that might solve both problems (doubt it, but
| maybe...)  I had the boottocl in the src/boot directory running in sbcl
| at one point, but I never did figure out if it was working correctly. 
| I doubt it was generating loadable lisp :-(

My plan is to move to a state where we use boottocl from src/boot.
I've not done much this week, because of more pressing things here to
deal with.  I'll post more questions, and no doubt we will have more
discussions :-)

-- Gaby