Re: [boost] Interactive metaprogramming shells

Subject: Re: [boost] Interactive metaprogramming shells
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-26 17:14:56

On 1/26/2014 4:24 PM, Hartmut Kaiser wrote:
>
>>> I've built interactive shells for preprocessor and template
>>> metaprogramming. I've been using them for development and debugging of
>>> metaprograms and I think Boost developers could also find them useful.
>>>
>>> You can type in (metaprogramming) expressions which get evaluated and
>>> the result is displayed immediately. For example you can type
>>>
>>>         boost::mpl::push_front<boost::mpl::vector<int, char>,
>>> double>::type
>>>
>>> and you get
>>>
>>>         boost_::mpl::vector<double, int, char>
>>>
>>> as the result (the boost_ namespace is used because there are some
>>> tricks there to make the output more readable).
>>>
>>>
>>> As an example for the preprocessor shell you can type
>>>
>>>         BOOST_PP_REPEAT(3, foo BOOST_PP_TUPLE_EAT(3), ~)
>>>
>>> and you get
>>>
>>>         foo foo foo
>>>
>>> as the result.
>>>
>>>
>>> The tools are based on the Boost.Wave library and Clang. You can get
>>> them here:
>>>     Preshell for preprocessor: https://github.com/sabel83/preshell
>>>     Metashell for template metaprograms:
>>> https://github.com/sabel83/metashell
>>>
>>> You can also try them from your browser here:
>>> http://abel.web.elte.hu/shell
>
> That's nice tools! However, the wave tool itself already supports a REPL
> interface for preprocessing, just start it without arguments...

Is there any documentation for this interface ? I could not find 
anything about it in "The Wave Driver" documentation.