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From: byerly@paul.rutgers.edu (Boyce Byerly )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Is Runtime Creation of Methods/Functions Possible?
Keywords: like eval in LISP, perform in Smalltalk
Message-ID: <Mar.20.22.16.37.1989.22117@paul.rutgers.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 89 03:16:37 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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I need to know whether C++ has a construct analogous to "eval" in
LISP, or "Perform" in Smalltalk.  In other words, is there a way to
create a message representing a function invocation on the fly,
perhaps by putting the strings together and then treating it as a
piece of code?  Would it be possible to send text representing code to
a file, compile that file, and later link to it?

	Thanks for any help,

	Boyce