Christian Schladetsch wrote:
Sure, but I am wondering openly about an effort based on Boost.Wave that can provide a C++ environment created from a C++ environment. Such an effort could be used to test ideas far better than the current 'standard' 5-20 year turn-around could. And we shouldn't need to rely on a closed company.
C++ could make C++ quite easily, especially if using a tool like ANTLR. But whatever the means, it is a sad state that C++ doesn't have a C++ interpreter or a C++ runtime. Perhaps the work done on Boost.Wave could be used to make it.
I actually mentioned edg, because they emphasize that parsing C++ is really nontrivial. So I thought that reading your answer to this suggestion might be fun. If I had to think about a realistic option to make your wish come true, I should probably more go into the direction of LLVM and its clang front-end. Regards, Thomas