Immediate/Compile Time Execution for

[Brian Yennie]

I'm a bit lost as to where you're headed with this, but hopefully some 
of this background helps:

* Transcript is compiled into bytecode when you save a script. It is 
not purely interpreted- think Java (conceptually at least).
* The "do" command allows you to execute arbitrary scripts at runtime, 
but is subject to the scriptLimits property.
* You can write your own "handlers" to add commands and functions to 
the language
* You can write externals in C or C++ to add commands and functions to 
the language
* There are no #if, #include, #define, etc directives, but there is 
"start using" , "insert script" and constant declarations.
* commandNames(), functionNames(), externalCommands() and 
externalFunctions() can give you a list of all built-in commands and 
functions, along with external commands and functions.

HTH

> So, when tha apply button is invoked the routines/interpreter that 
> builds the "tokens" has no parse directives?  Are there no #if style 
> constructs?  I guess some documentation on specifically how the 
> compile/tokenization process occurs would be helpful.   Is the 
> metacard/transcript compiler using the TIL concept of words?  Doese 
> metacard/transcript  have a header segment or dicrionary that is 
> accessible?  So each of the words/handlers have a IMMEDIATE bit or 
> identifier?  I understand these are rather "under the hood" questions 
> I just fiqure that they would be in the documentation.
>
> Kevin