Re: [boost] Request for Interest in eval

Subject: Re: [boost] Request for Interest in eval
From: Hrvoje Prge¹a (hrvoje.prgesa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-09-21 09:58:10

Christian Hoermann wrote:
>> I don't see the point of creating yet another scripting language.
>> If it were real C++, it would be cool, but it doesn't seem to be.
> 
> The point is not to create a scripting language. The point is that
> an eval script can take an existing instance from a C++
> program and modify that (as well as create instances of
> existing classes and pass those back to the compiled program).

Most of the embedded script languages can interact with the host code in 
that way (mostly with C but with a bit of twiddling it works with c++ as 
well). To name the few: Lua (easy C integration), MS script host (COM), 
python (python/c & boost)...

As I see it the main advantage would be c++ like syntax and almost 1:1 
mapping of the constructs. There may be some use for it if was 
lightweight and easily integrated, but it is in fact a new script 
language, and when you need scripting most of the time you want a real 
and familiar scripting language.

-- Hrvoje