Re: [armedbear-devel] Some thoughts on classloaders, ...

Don Cohen writes:

I don't know what you mean by compiling code "to the jvm". Code is anything that can be interpreted by some interpreter and comes in many forms. There are even many different forms of byte code.

The most interesting aspect of ABCL is that it can compile Lisp to JVM in a fashion that allows (fsvo) arbitrary intermixture between Java and Lisp,i.e. Java sees Lisp as Java, Lisp sees Java as Lisp. A natural intermixture, no ffi involved. Hence, ABCL can not fence in itself in a closed world as you seem to suggest.

-T.