Task

Demonstrate a language's ability for programs to execute code written in the language provided at runtime.

Show what kind of program fragments are permitted (e.g. expressions vs. statements), and how to get values in and out (e.g. environments, arguments, return values), if applicable what lexical/static environment the program is evaluated in, and what facilities for restricting (e.g. sandboxes, resource limits) or customizing (e.g. debugging facilities) the execution.

You may not invoke a separate evaluator program, or invoke a compiler and then its output, unless the interface of that program, and the syntax and means of executing it, are considered part of your language/library/platform.

For a more constrained task giving a specific program fragment to evaluate, see Eval in environment.




; requires AutoHotkey_H or AutoHotkey.dll
msgbox % eval("3 + 4")
msgbox % eval("4 + 4")
return
 
 
eval(expression)
{
global script
script = 
(
    expression(){
    return %expression%
  }
)
renameFunction("expression", "")  ; remove any previous expressions
gosub load ; cannot use addScript inside a function yet
exp := "expression"
return %exp%()
}
 
load:
DllCall(A_AhkPath "\addScript","Str",script,"Uchar",0,"Cdecl UInt")
return
 
renameFunction(funcName, newname){
static         
x%newname% := newname   ; store newname in a static variable so its memory is not freed
strput(newname, &x%newname%, strlen(newname) + 1)
if fnp := FindFunc(funcName)
  numput(&x%newname%, fnp+0, 0, "uint")
}