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On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 06:09:06PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
> > Well for god's sake, could they stop adding new ways to make things rotate
> > for a second and add one useful function to the language?!
>
> > function include(source) {
> > document.write("<script source\"" + source + "\"></script>");
> > }
>
> Because this is done at EXECUTE time, and prevents you from writing a JS
> compiler EVEN IF YOU WANTED TO.
I was thinking about this some more and it occured to me.. since the above is
an extension to the DOM, not the core language, it assumes its going to be
running inside a web browser: a trusted environment on an unknown platform.
You don't want to be shipping machine code. Best you can do is byte-code
to be run through a VM. The byte-code compiler can spot the include()s and
compile them as well. You would have to include the limitation that
include() only takes a static string, not a variable, but that's ok by me.
There's stuff above here
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