Lambda the Ultimate

I'm curious. Has there been any research on techniques to generate a compiler based on an interpreter, or to generate both based on a specification of semantics? It strikes me as an overly ambitious approach that nonetheless seems very similar to a lot of what I've already seen in language design..

This will probably not happen too often, but scottmcl's threads seem to have a habit of going over 200 replies (;-)), and thus requiring multiple pages of HTML to display. When you click on 'next page', new replies do not have the * dot.

This is a bug related to a context between pagination settings and visiting a thread. The software assumes if you view a thread, then only the most recent * are unmarked on the next view. It does not take into account pagination.