Re: An expression compiler with run-time interpretation?

nr@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu (Norman Ramsey)
24 Sep 2000 00:34:09 -0400

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From: nr@labrador.eecs.harvard.edu (Norman Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Sep 2000 00:34:09 -0400
Organization: Harvard University
References: 00-09-146
Keywords: parse, interpreter

Tom <TArcidiacono@bridge.com> wrote:
>I'm building an application that must be able to read arithmetic
>expressions (such as x = 12 * ((y + z)/ (sqrt(y))) ) from an external
>text file at runtime, "compile" them, and later evaluate the
>expression to find a result when the variable values have been
>satisfied. The evaluation may have to happen multiple times during the
>life of the program, as the variable values may change.


Why not embed Lua? Tiny footprint, clean code, faster than Tcl, Perl,
or Python.


www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua
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Norman Ramsey
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr
Satisfied user of Lua ;-)


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