From: Kurt Stephens <ks@...>
Date: 2011-10-26T04:22:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:40370] Re: 2.0 feature questionnaire

On 10/25/11 2:12 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:
>
> On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:33 AM, Thomas E Enebo wrote:
>
>> <headius@headius.com>  wrote:
>>>> - Getting source code
>>>
>>> This is a far, far better way to allow people access to AST. Give them
>>> access to the source for a given method or block and provide an
>>> implementation-independent parsing library. That's the Javascript way,
>>> and it should be the Ruby way too.
>>
>> yes!  Please just give a reference to source code and an API for
>> producing a non-implementation dependent source representation.  We
>> would certainly help in crafting a neutral AST format.
>
> Yes, please.  What he said.
>
Use OMETA, write a compliant Ruby grammar, then users can craft any AST, 
compilation or transform they want on Ruby code:

https://github.com/aquasync/ruby-ometa

-- Kurt