[Axiom-developer] Re: interpreter and with-expression

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 address@hidden wrote:

| > What is the difference between putting that definition in a file
| > and subsequently issueing )co
|
| The interpreter does not have the treewalking machinery to dynamically
| construct and use a category. The compiler does.

  (1)  But, they are not really two separate software.

  (2) the interpreter does what a category looks like syntactically.
      So, instead of aborting with an obscure message, it can just
      as well call the compiler sub-component with the parse tree
      and has the compiler does the construction and loads the
      resulting object.

-- Gaby