On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Bakul Shah
<bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com<bakul%2Bplan9@bitblocks.com>>
wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:21:33 PDT "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
>  wrote:
> > (format t "Hello, World!~%")
> >
> > basically gets "read" then compiled then executed right?  (thinking REPL
> > here)
> >
> > Right?  At least that's how SBCL works based on my understanding.
>
> Well, it is not a read-eval-print-loop -- it is not
> interactive or a loop and the code has to explicit print
> something.  But yes the expression does get read, compiled
> and executed.  SBCL is forked from CMUCL so they share most
> of their behavior.


right, I was just referring to REPL because obviously that S-expression is
scripted in.  It's not going through the standard REPL at all, but a sort of
a variant of it.  Perhaps just RE :-)

Dave


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