1. Re: [E - 12 to 13 Jun 1997] Interpret
Irv <mountains at MINDSPRING.COM> writes...
E::>Robert Craig wrote:
::>>
::>> In my APL days long ago I found the APL interpreter's "execute"
::>> function, which does exactly what you are asking, to
::>> be very much a solution looking for a problem.
::>> I've got higher priority things to look at.
::>>
::>I'm puzzled. Can someone give a real-life example of something that would
::>be made much easier/faster/simpler by using an interpret() function?
Well, the first example that comes to mind, immediately, is a
program for use in schools that accepts a formula from the
keyboard, and generates a graph of it.
The second example that comes to mind (almost as fast as the
first) is to enhance either Robert's or David's editor with
macros (written in Euphoria, natch), which can be dynamically
redefined at any time, or defined differently in different
directories, or for different file extensions, at file-load
time. One could play games with this kind of thing using
include files - unless you're using a bound version of the
editor.
The second example is actually more likely than the first; the
only reason it was second is because I'd been discussing
educational software with my mother (a teacher) and this
example came up...
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Jeff Zeitlin jeff.zeitlin at execnet.com
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