From: Ilmari Heikkinen <kig@...>
Date: 2005-02-14T01:36:55+09:00
Subject: Re: Object#to_ruby and Object#to_c

Hi,

On 8.2.2005, at 19:52, Ben Giddings wrote:

> In case you missed it, on RedHanded, I spotted was an interesting 
> snippet I didn't see on the list or anything:
>
> It's a way of using ParseTree and RubyToC to add 'to_c' and 'to_ruby' 
> methods to any Method.
>
> http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/tooInterestingToPassUp.html

I hacked some on the original RubyToRuby class of Ryan Davis. Now it 
parses most of ruby syntax, including itself.

http://dark.fhtr.org/ruby2ruby.rb

There's a test unit at the bottom of the file to demonstrate the 
capability


Interesting thoughts arose:
1. docstrings would be quite trivial to implement with parsetree
2. one could write ruby-lisp that eats parsetree, and translate it to 
ruby and vice versa

-Ilmari