D as a prototyping language (for C/C++ projects)

[timotheecour]

On Wednesday, 27 February 2013 at 19:55:41 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2013-02-27 11:07, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Good idea. Should be in bugzilla as an enh, although it'll 
>> take a while
>> to get to that.
>
> I wonder how good the implementation will be if one just pass 
> the line to rdmd and prints the result.

I'm assuming you're talking about REPL. That won't cut it, as one 
wants to keep maintain a notion of state (variables in memory 
etc) and not reparse lines entered everytime (which could have IO 
side effects etc).

I've played a bit with Oskar Linde's library for that and ported 
it to latest DMD release and it works quite well already, 
something solid to build upon (see post 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/fpmpa6$2muq$1@digitalmars.com).