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Free scripting languages with C++ syntax?
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Are there any scripting languages with C++ syntax that are free and be easily embedded into an application?
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If you want C++ syntax, uhmm, why don''t you use C++?
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I had this question a long time ago and noone had anything like I wanted, so I tried to make it myself. I got somewhere, but not as much as I wanted.
Are you hoping to use lots of functions and variables in the main program? If you only need a few, various scripting systems will allow you to register them so that you can use them in scripts. If you want to use heaps of them like I did, you end up trying to write a precompiler which parses your header files and creates the code to register them, which then gets compiled with your main program... whatever was on thinking when I tried to do that! Of course the advantage of using C++ syntax is you can use the same code to parse your headers as your scripts.
It may be that you can get away with hard-coding things you might have scripted, or use Lua which has different syntax. I''d offer you my scripting system, but it''s messy and incomplete.
Are you hoping to use lots of functions and variables in the main program? If you only need a few, various scripting systems will allow you to register them so that you can use them in scripts. If you want to use heaps of them like I did, you end up trying to write a precompiler which parses your header files and creates the code to register them, which then gets compiled with your main program... whatever was on thinking when I tried to do that! Of course the advantage of using C++ syntax is you can use the same code to parse your headers as your scripts.
It may be that you can get away with hard-coding things you might have scripted, or use Lua which has different syntax. I''d offer you my scripting system, but it''s messy and incomplete.
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quote: Original post by zer0wolf
If you want C++ syntax, uhmm, why don''t you use C++?
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Because that''s not a scripting language, which is what I asked for, and because I''m familiar with the syntax of C++ and so it would be easier to work with.
I''m just curious; I''ve already worked with Lua a bit but I was wondering what alternatives there were out there.
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Here I thought you used scripting languages to get away from C++....
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Why don''t you just write a C++ interpreter then? You could simplify certain features.
I''d just use Lua.
I''d just use Lua.
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quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
Why don''t you just write a C++ interpreter then? You could simplify certain features.
I''d just use Lua.
I don''t know how.
When I said something about using C++, I was implying what the first anonymous poster said, just use an interpeter for the C++ syntax.
From what I''ve seen out there Lua is pretty high up there on the list of good scripting languages, if not Lua then Python
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From what I''ve seen out there Lua is pretty high up there on the list of good scripting languages, if not Lua then Python
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