Dynamic reflection

[Francois-Rene Rideau <address@hidden>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:07:17PM +0300, Lauri Alanko wrote:
> I still am not aware of any system that supports anything that I'd call
> "real" statically typed eval.
Many languages in the PS-Algol family (scottish languages for
orthogonally persistent systems) have such statically typed eval.
Granted, for those I saw, they eval'ed source strings,
which is not as satisfying as eval of SEXP,
but that's a good start.

Interactive Oberon systems also have the ability to dynamically compile code;
I don't know if they have standardized a structured source representation.

I admit I don't know whether these systems cope with type redefinition,
and how they do if they do.

[Coping with week-old discussion]

Regards,

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