[REBOL] Re: PREBOL questions
From: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 25-Nov-2002 7:54
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> On Behalf Of Gregg Irwin
> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 7:37 PM
> To: Robert M. Muench
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: PREBOL questions
> Graham and I just mentioned this on IOS/Developer.
Hi, some other thread here are just discussing if IOS conference is
useful for such things. I have to say without threading etc. it's not
that useful to me for long ongoing discussions. Further for high volume
it's not very comfortable. That's why I mostly stay to the ML. Anyway...
> I don't think using a comment will be so easy because PREBOL
> does a LOAD/ALL so it can find the directives as issue!
> values. Comments would never show up for it to process, right?
Seems that I didn't took a deep enought look in it. What happens if you
run a PREBOLed script just normal (adding a do... In front of each
include)? Now I think it should run and nothing special should happen
to/with the issue! Values.
> There's also not an easy way to find out if something has
> already been #included.
Really? IMO this should be possible. What's tricky is to find out what
to include from an included file. Including it completely is easy.
> Ultimately I think I'll want, and need, a good dialect to
> handle all this. Building an optimizer would be a good bit of
> work I think.
Yep, I agree. And this dialect should be loaded by default (like VID)
and support two modes:
1. Development mode: Just pre-process and run immediatly wihtout output
2. Release mode: Strip, create one-file output, compress etc.
Robert
