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From: rhyde@koufax.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
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Subject: Re: Programming Question
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Date: 21 Jun 91 21:09:58 GMT
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Several languages, generally interpreters, provide an "execute" statement.
You supply a string which contains a valid statement and it parses and executes
that statement.  Some older versions of BASIC do this.  SNOBOL4 does this.
LISP does this.  Etc.   Forget Pascal and C.  I don't know of any interpreters
for these languages that allow this.  Of course, you could always write your
own expression evaluator (you could use FLEX & BISON to generate the code for
you) and link this into your program.
*** Randy Hyde