Re: [Axiom-developer] Re: SPAD and Aldor again

[Martin Rubey]

Peter Broadbery <address@hidden> writes:

> On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:36 +0100, Martin Rubey wrote:
> > Peter Broadbery <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:43 +0100, Martin Rubey wrote:
> > 
> > > > And, as you know, in my opinion the first step in making this happen is 
> > > > to
> > > > make the Axiom interpreter (!) understand Aldor generated code, i.e.,
> > > > dependent types.
> > > 
> > > This is currently stymied by the aldor compiler not being able to generate
> > > .asy files where there are dependent types in signatures
> > > (try 'foo: (R: Ring, t: R)').  The .asy generation code enters a loop, 
> > > which
> > > is a bit poor.
> > 
> > Does this mean that one would need to modify the Aldor compiler? I.e., we 
> > would
> > need access to the sources?
> 
> Yup.  Reverse engineering the .ao is possible, but not a serious
> proposition.
> 
> Peter

Oops. That's the worst news I heard for a long time. It's time to send email to
Stephen Watt again.

Martin