Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: SPAD and Aldor again

[Peter Broadbery]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:24 +0100, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> Peter Broadbery  wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:43 +0100, Martin Rubey wrote: 
> > > Peter Broadbery is currently making Aldor extend work in Axiom. That's a 
> > > giant
> > > step, in fact! Unfortuantely, it seems that support for dependent types 
> > > is even
> > > more difficult. One would have to understand how aldor and axiom work
> > > together. As far as I know, there are only very few people around who know
> > > about this already. 
> > 
> > The mechanism is fairly simple - just fake up objects that look like
> > aldor domains and categories in axiom (interop.boot does this), and on
> > the other side interpret asy files as defining axiom types (daase.lisp).
>                                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
> You mean 'as.boot'?
> 
> 

That one as well (my mistake).  daase does the reading and setting up
imports, as.boot does the mapping to axiom types.

Peter