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HELP COMPILE Fran Evelyn, July 985 compile(<character-repeater | word | string | device>) COMPILE takes one argument. This can be: 1) A character repeater. If this is the case, the stream of characters returned by the repeater is compiled until the terminator character *TERMIN is produced. Thus: compile(charin); will cause input to be compiled from the user's terminal until the user types the "end of file" character (<CTRL> D on Unix machines; <CTRL> Z on VMS). 2) A word or a string. If this is the case, the word or string is taken to be a file name and the specified file is compiled (by first applying *DISCIN to the file name to produce a character repeater). If the argument is a word, DISCIN appends the string POP_DEFAULT_TYPE to create a string. E.g. given the word "foo" it might create the file name 'foo.p', 'foo.pl', 'foo.lsp' or 'foo.ml' depending on the value of POP_DEFAULT_TYPE. 3) A *DEVICE. If this is the case, DISCIN is called to produce a character repeater for the device, and the resulting input stream is compiled. During a call of COMPILE, the variable *CUCHARIN holds the character repeater currently being compiled. Once the character repeater has been obtained, COMPILE need only do: popval(pdtolist(incharitem(cucharin))); to compile the file (or whatever). If the *PDPROPS of CUCHARIN is a string, then that string is assumed to be the name of the file being compiled, and assigned by COMPILE to the variable POPFILENAME. This file name is displayed if a *MISHAP occurs while compiling the file. DISCIN ensures that the PDPROPS of the character repeater it returns is the name of the appropriate file. See also: HELP * INCHARITEM - converts character repeater into item repeater HELP * POPVAL - to compile the items in a list HELP * PDTOLIST - on constructing dynamic lists HELP * CHARIN - character repeater procedure HELP * LOAD - more convenient syntax for interactive compilation REF * CHARIO - character repeaters, consumers, etc. REF * POP_DEFAULT_TYPE REF * POPCOMPILE - detailed analysis of compilation in POP11 REF * PROGLIST - Info on PROGLIST and item-reading procedures REF * ITEMISE - for information on the POP11 itemiser REF * LIBRARY - library mechanisms, autoloading, etc. HELP * AUTOLOAD - autoloadable libraries --- C.all/help/compile --- Copyright University of Sussex 1990. All rights reserved. ----------