Re: How about a z-code linker?


5 Apr 95 14:58:08 +0100

In article <3l85l7$mb8@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz>, greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz (Greg Ewing) writes:
> Does anyone else think that it would be useful
> to have a version of Inform which could
> compile pieces of source separately and
> link them?
>
> Compiling the whole Inform library seems to
> take a very long time. Separate compilation
> would make the edit/compile/test loop a
> lot smoother.
>

I have been thinking about this, but most of my thoughts in this
direction have been along the lines of "Oh my God". In an ideal
world I'd love to do this, but the problems involved really are
formidable, because of the extremely cross-referencing structure
of the run-time code format.

Still... No. No, I'm too sensible. Really.

Graham Nelson