Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: Boot, Virtual Machine

[Waldek Hebisch]

> Stephen Wilson <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> | I figured that since you are deeply involved in developing Boot that
> | an `interesting' example would roll off the tip of your tongue. Sorry.
> 
> I'm driven by application:  I've seen code converted from Boot to Lisp
> on the ground that Lisp was more powerful.  Yet, in the code
> converted, no additional strength of Lisp was used.  
>

Most of "converted" code is simply output of the Boot translator.
It is clear that such code can not use features absent in Boot.

There is a few snippets which were really converted to work around
limitations of Boot.  In fact I yesterday commited one such
snippet:  I needed double precision numeric constants, but both
old Boot and Shoe were mangling them.

Most of limitations affecting practical code is rather silly and
we should simply remove them.

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                              Waldek Hebisch
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