RE: Very basic questions.

[Jay Bingham]

On Friday, September 15, 2006 at 2:07 PM jronald wrote:

> How does .el run?

> Is it an explanation language or a compilation one?
> I know little about how explanation language works.

I am not familiar with the term "explanation language" so I did a 
search on the Internet for it and from the one reference that I found 
to "explanation language" related to programming I do not believe 
that elisp is an explanation language.  Elisp can be "compiled" or it 
can be run in interpreted mode.

> Take "require" for example. How does it know where the
> feature list is? Or, how does feature list make itself to be found
> by functions? Maybe the problem is what is the memory model about
> elisp.

"require" and "load" both locate modules by searching the load-path.

You can read about all of this in the elisp reference manual, which 
if it is not installed on your system in the info directory it can be 
found on the web.

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