Programming language for self-modifying code?

Question

• I am recently thinking about writing self-modifying programs, I think it may be powerful and fun. So I am currently looking for a language that allows

Answer 1

I wrote Python class Code that enables you to add and delete new lines of code to the object, print the code and excecute it. Class Code shown at the end.

Example: if the x == 1, the code changes its value to x = 2 and then deletes the whole block with the conditional that checked for that condition.

#Initialize Variables
x = 1

#Create Code
code = Code()
code + 'global x, code' #Adds a new Code instance code[0] with this line of code => internally             code.subcode[0]
code + "if x == 1:"     #Adds a new Code instance code[1] with this line of code => internally code.subcode[1]
code[1] + "x = 2"       #Adds a new Code instance 0 under code[1] with this line of code => internally code.subcode[1].subcode[0]
code[1] + "del code[1]" #Adds a new Code instance 0 under code[1] with this line of code => internally code.subcode[1].subcode[1]

After the code is created you can print it:

#Prints
print "Initial Code:"
print code
print "x = " + str(x)

Output:

Initial Code:

global x, code
if x == 1:
    x = 2
    del code[1]

x = 1

Execute the cade by calling the object: code()

print "Code after execution:"
code() #Executes code
print code
print "x = " + str(x)

Output 2:

Code after execution:

global x, code

x = 2

As you can see, the code changed the variable x to the value 2 and deleted the whole if block. This might be useful to avoid checking for conditions once they are met. In real-life, this case-scenario could be handled by a coroutine system, but this self modifying code experiment is just for fun.

class Code:

    def __init__(self,line = '',indent = -1):

        if indent < -1:
            raise NameError('Invalid {} indent'.format(indent))

        self.strindent = ''
        for i in xrange(indent):
            self.strindent = '    ' + self.strindent

        self.strsubindent = '    ' + self.strindent

        self.line = line
        self.subcode = []
        self.indent = indent


    def __add__(self,other):

        if other.__class__ is str:
            other_code = Code(other,self.indent+1)
            self.subcode.append(other_code)
            return self

        elif other.__class__ is Code:
            self.subcode.append(other)
            return self

    def __sub__(self,other):

        if other.__class__ is str:
            for code in self.subcode:
                if code.line == other:
                    self.subcode.remove(code)
                    return self


        elif other.__class__ is Code:
            self.subcode.remove(other)


    def __repr__(self):
        rep = self.strindent + self.line + '\n'
        for code in self.subcode: rep += code.__repr__()
        return rep

    def __call__(self):
        print 'executing code'
        exec(self.__repr__())
        return self.__repr__()


    def __getitem__(self,key):
        if key.__class__ is str:
                for code in self.subcode:
                    if code.line is key:
                        return code
        elif key.__class__ is int:
            return self.subcode[key]

    def __delitem__(self,key):
        if key.__class__ is str:
            for i in range(len(self.subcode)):
                code = self.subcode[i]
                if code.line is key:
                    del self.subcode[i]
        elif key.__class__ is int:
            del self.subcode[key]