Re: lambda-like expressions for C

["Peter \"Firefly\" Lund" <firefly diku dk>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Paul Davis wrote:

> either i just don't understand what you want to do, or you don't
> understand enough about how a program in C (or C++ or any other
> compiled-to-machine-code language) works when its executing.

Paul is right.

> dynamically link the resulting object. problem is: no context for the
> variables can be provided. the most "complex" one requires a full C
> interpreter, several of which exist, but again, the interpreter would
> have no context for the variables that you are transferring from the
> outer scope of the "lambda" expression.

tcc has a nice library for compiling C code on the fly - it only works on
Linux IA32 for now, though.

And anyway, it is still not what the original poster wants.

(and it is, of course, NOT a lambda expression, anyway)

> so, as i said, either i am misunderstanding you or you don't seem to
> grasp this basic level of program execution.

Paul is right again.

-Peter