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Hallo,
On Dec 19, 2007 9:25 PM, John Meacham <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Actually, it is a pretty fundamental feature of the lisp-derived
> languages that they can self modify their own source, and hence keep
> their own source representation all the way through runtime.
>
This is not actually true. You may be thinking of macros, but
macro expansion time is before compile time. After compilation, not
many, if any, modern Lisps keep the source around. Of course the old
Lisp machines were different.
Cheers,
--
-alex
http://www.ventonegro.org/
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