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Re: [Chicken-hackers] (load ...)


From: John Cowan
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] (load ...)
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:13:32 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Peter Keller scripsit:

> 1. If (load ...) is determined by the compiler to be loading a real file
> from the file system, is the file then actually brought in (lexically
> analyzed, etc, etc, etc) and compiled as a unit or is it only interpreted.

It is not compiled.  If it has already been compiled, the compiled code
is executed.  If it is source code, it is interpreted.

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