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1.3 Execution

Onyx code is never compiled, nor is it preprocessed by the interpreter. Onyx code is simply consumed. This has some interesting implications, some of which are not typical of even other interpreted languages:

In practice, these are only minor inconveniences, but it is important to keep them in mind when developing.



Jason Evans 2005-03-16