namespace; include rt, run; // staged code: a program writes a specialized function as source, compiles it // while running, and calls it. here, polynomials with their coefficients baked // in as constants, so there's no loop and no array left at runtime. let buf[2000], n; void put(s) { let i = 0; while (s[i]) { buf[n] = s[i]; n++; i++; } return; } void putnum(int v) { if (v >= 10) putnum(v / 10); buf[n] = '0' + v % 10; n++; return; } // coefficients c[0] + c[1] x + ... in horner form: ((c3 x + c2) x + c1) x + c0 fn specialize(int* c, int deg) { n = 0; put("fn poly(x) { return "); for (int i = 0; i < deg; i++) put("("); if (c[deg] < 0) { put("0 - "); putnum(0 - c[deg]); } else putnum(c[deg]); for (int i = deg - 1; i >= 0; i--) { put(") * x "); if (c[i] < 0) { put("- "); putnum(0 - c[i]); } else { put("+ "); putnum(c[i]); } } put("; }"); buf[n] = 0; return buf; } void main() { int[4] c; c[0] = 7; c[1] = 0 - 3; c[2] = 0; c[3] = 2; // 2x^3 - 3x + 7 let src = specialize(c, 3), q = run.tokens(src); rt.put_s(src); rt.put_c(10); run.load(q); // compiled now, into the running program rt.free(q); let f = run.sval[run.lookups("poly")]; // and found by name in the compiler's symbol table for (int x = 0 - 2; x <= 3; x++) { rt.put_n(f(x)); rt.put_c(' '); } rt.put_c(10); return; }