On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:17:51 +0000, gareth evans
 wrote:

>My thinking is that for any interactive program, there has to be
>some form of tokenisation to represent the source program, so
>why should not those tokens be the carefully-chosen unambiguous
>machine code instructions that execute the code?

The compiled form includes the names and the compiled code.
That's all.

Yes, you can keep on developing interactively. The tokens you
need are probably the source code. The compiler is very, very fast,
on most PC machines over 1 million lines of code per minute.

Stephen


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