ChaiScript/ChaiScript

Hi everybody,

I spent some time this morning experimenting with ChaiScript, and wrote this basic example:

#include <memory>
#include <string>
#include <unordered_map>

#include <chaiscript/chaiscript.hpp>


class Interface final
{
public:
    void setAttr(const std::string& key, const std::string& value) {
        m_attributes[key] = value;
    }

    const std::string& getAttr(const std::string& key) {
        return m_attributes[key];
    }

private:
    std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> m_attributes;
};

void execute(Interface& interface, const std::string& script)
{
    chaiscript::ChaiScript chai;

    // Add types.
    chaiscript::ModulePtr m(std::make_unique<chaiscript::Module>());
    chaiscript::utility::add_class<Interface>(*m,
        "Interface",
        {},
        {{chaiscript::fun(&Interface::setAttr), "setAttr"},
         {chaiscript::fun(&Interface::getAttr), "getAttr"}}
    );
    chai.add(m);

    // Bind global variables.
    chai.add(chaiscript::var(&interface), "interface");

    // Parse and run the script.
    chai.eval_file(script);
}

int main(int argc, const char* argv[])
{
    if (argc <= 1) { return -1; }

    Interface interface;
    const std::string script = argv[1];
    execute(interface, script);

    return 0;
}

It surprised me how easy it was to get it working.

So, here is the question. I would like to invoke the execute() function many times, with different Interface objects, but with the same script program. Ideally, I'd like to reuse the same chaiscript::ChaiScript chai instance to avoid parsing/interpreting the program each time. Is this possible at the moment with ChaiScript?

Thanks!