[Aldor-l] [Axiom-developer] Re: exports and constants

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

"Page, Bill" <Bill.Page at drdc-rddc.gc.ca> writes:

| I do not see any relevance of Lisp to the subject of reflection in Aldor.

I suspect it comes from implementation experience.  Basically, it
boils down to manipulating things symbolically and Lisp is very good
at that.  Other languages can be used, but they are going to mimic
Lisp.

Unless, you have a way to implement this directly in the compiler.
See Template Haskell (in GHC sources) for the kind of thing that is
done. 

-- Gaby, not a Lisp fanatic