From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2010-12-13T09:18:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:33697] Re: Towards a standardized AST for Ruby code


On Dec 12, 2010, at 07:55 , Magnus Holm wrote:

> ## Suggested plan
> 
> 1. Design and standardize an AST together with a test suite (based on
> current parsers' test suites)
> 2. Write converters for all the parsers above
> 3. Provide a gem with all of the converters which automatically
> chooses the best internal parser on each implementation.
> 4. Make sure everyone targets this meta-parser instead of custom AST
> provided by other parsers.
> 5. *If* this gets traction, each implementation can *then* provide
> their own Ruby::Parser class and we can slowly deprecate the gem.

I think that's a good plan. I've been considering namespacing RP into Ruby::. Then it could be easy to adopt that for most implementations.