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Re: Java eval?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Pearson (Starwave))
Fri Oct 27 15:16:37 1995

From: "Tim Pearson (Starwave)" <TimPE@starwave.com>
To: daemon <daemon@java.sun.com>, java-interest <java-interest@java.sun.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 95 09:02:00 PDT


>> Is it possible in Java to read a piece of Java code at runtime  and
>> execute it, as in Lisp, Smalltalk and Perl ?
>
>Are you asking if you can load a piece of Java code *into* a Perl script 
and
>execute it?  Or are you asking if you can cause a Java program to load in
>another piece of Java code and execute that?

He wants to compile and execute a string (of Java code) at runtime.  It's a 
common thing to do in most interpreted languages.  Does anyone know how to 
do this?

Tim Pearson
timpe@starwave.com

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