MiniD 1.0 released!

[Chris Nicholson-Sauls]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Robert Fraser" <fraserofthenight at gmail.coim> wrote in message 
> news:f8pdsq$1p4l$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Awesome; great job. From a cursory look, I like what's going on there, but 
>> the things keeping me from turning away from Perl for general scripting 
>> purposes are the lack of an eval() and first-class regexes. Still, this 
>> looks like an awesome language for scripting within the context of another 
>> application, which I guess is the point.
>>
>> Anyways, congratulations on 1.0!
> 
> Oh, but it *does* have eval!  OK, so because of the design of the 
> implementation, it can't access local variables, but it's still there in 
> both the scripting language and the native API.
> 
> Thanks for the reply :) 
> 
> 

Ah, but since it *does* have access to 'varargs', could you not use 
loadString (eval's older brother of sorts) and pass the generated 
function the locals you need?  :)

  ____[ MiniD ]____________________________________
|
|  local x, y ;
|  // bunch of stuff
|
|  x, y = loadString("
|    local x, y = varargs ;
|    // do some dynamic stuff with x and y
|    return x, y;
|  ")(x,y);
|_________________________________________________

Sure its more explicit... it also means the code string doesn't have to 
actually know the names of the local variables; ie, you could reuse the 
same string for other functions, or better yet store the generated 
function under its own name and use it like any other function.

-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls