Convert string to mathematical function

[Felipe Almeida Lessa]

Em Ter, 2006-08-01 às 18:45 -0700, jeremito escreveu:
> I am extending python with C++ and need some help.  I would like to
> convert a string to a mathematical function and then make this a C++
> function.  

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can create new C++ functions
on-the-fly. At least I had the impression that only VMs could do it
(e.g. System.Reflection on .NET/Mono world and, of course, Python). 

> My one idea (although I don't
> know how to implement it, I'm still new at this) is to pass to C++ a
> pointer to a (Python) function.  Will this work?

I think it will, but I can't tell you how =).

-- 
Felipe.