MathExp: KISS or All-Out?

[Bill Baxter]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:49 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm working on some mathy modules that I'd like to eventually contribute
>>> to
>>> Phobos, or, if they're too niche, to a standalone lib.
>>> One that I've alluded
>>> to here in the past few days is MathExp.  Basically what it does is
>>> parse/interpret/evaluate/manipulate mathematical expressions at runtime.
>>
>> I kinda think it's too niche.  A nice thing to have if you're
>> implementing a calculator or some other program where users can input
>> their own expressions.  But other than that I can't think of any time
>> I've run across the need to evaluate expressions at runtime.  What
>> sort of use cases did you have in mind?
>
> Probably the same as these:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/MathieuMathParser.aspx
> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/recipes/FastMathParser.aspx

Funny.  Yes, seems they couldn't come up with any examples either. :-)

--bb