D scripting in D

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:22:20PM +0000, Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
> On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 16:13:03 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> > On Friday, 2 June 2017 at 02:06:27 UTC, Mike B Johnson wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Stefan Koch has written a good part of an interpreter for D AST, no?
> > And I guess the lexing and parsing stage doesn't take so long,
> > whereas not having to link saves much time.
> > 
> > So is there any way to repurpose his work on ctfe to have an
> > interpreter that you can call at run time, set context for and get
> > return values back?
> 
> No there is not.  First it's woefully incomplete and secondly it's
> tightly bound to dmd, and it's semantic phases

Hmm. I wonder if there's a way for, say, ldc to export llvm bytecode of
a given D program, such that another program can load this bytecode and
interpret it at runtime?  Is it possible to use llvm in such a way?


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