Re: [boost] Interactive metaprogramming shells

Subject: Re: [boost] Interactive metaprogramming shells
From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-26 17:16:28

On 1/26/2014 6:21 AM, Abel Sinkovics wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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
>
> Feedback is welcome.

Can the preshell run under Windows ? If so, how do I set it up ? I do 
have a readline5.dll under Windows as part of the gnuwin32 toolset.