Re: [Felix-language] REPL?

2007-07-17 Thread Erick Tryzelaar
On 7/17/07, skaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is .. Emacs and Gvim can already do this.. > so why do all that work and have a substandard > text editor? I've used python's all the time, I find it super useful to test out small things. I've always wanted one for felix, but I'm not su

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread skaller
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 17:40 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > hi, > > Many thanks for all the info, it is good to get a handle on what is going on. > > > There's little need for things like SWIG, because there > > is no substantive (executable) glue logic. Adding two > > integers in Felix is the same as

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, Many thanks for all the info, it is good to get a handle on what is going on. > There's little need for things like SWIG, because there > is no substantive (executable) glue logic. Adding two > integers in Felix is the same as in C: While it is simple, it still seems like boilerplate. My hop

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread skaller
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:21 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > > > avoid DRY. Can one do something like: > > > header > > > #include > > ah, doing some empirical studies, it looks like that can work, coolio. > > but that (the simpler route) doesn't get the Felix wrappering, ja? so > there's still glue to

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread skaller
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 11:39 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > hi, > > Many thanks for the tutorial! I will give it a shot. > > Reading over the info, it seems like there is quite a bit of work that > a developer has to do to get hooked up with C++ code. Not really. The glue logic I gave was complete:

Re: [Felix-language] REPL?

2007-07-17 Thread skaller
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:06 -0700, Raoul Duke wrote: > hi, > > Is there a form of REPL for Felix per chance? (Skimming the docs I > didn't notice one just yet.) What's a REPL? (googles .. ) ah Read Eval Print Loop. Nope. Felix is a compiler, not an interpreter. I have thought about and tried to

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
> > avoid DRY. Can one do something like: > > header > > #include > ah, doing some empirical studies, it looks like that can work, coolio. but that (the simpler route) doesn't get the Felix wrappering, ja? so there's still glue to be written before i can do things like var bar = foo(42); ?

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
> avoid DRY. Can one do something like: > header > #include ah, doing some empirical studies, it looks like that can work, coolio. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of D

[Felix-language] REPL?

2007-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, Is there a form of REPL for Felix per chance? (Skimming the docs I didn't notice one just yet.) thanks. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take co

Re: [Felix-language] help with talking to c++

2007-07-17 Thread Raoul Duke
hi, Many thanks for the tutorial! I will give it a shot. Reading over the info, it seems like there is quite a bit of work that a developer has to do to get hooked up with C++ code. Would it be possible to have some meta-generator (dunno if SWIG could work?) that would alleviate some of the work?