From: Douglas Livingstone <rampant@...>
Date: 2006-05-25T02:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Zed and Luis drop the bomb on Ruby's poor performance

2006/5/24, Jacob Fugal <lukfugl@gmail.com>:
>
>   ((class Example Object (defn example (scope (block (args) (defn sum
>   (scope (block (args a b) (call (lvar a) + (array (lvar b)))))) (lasgn a
>   (lit 3)) (lasgn b (lit 4)) (lasgn c (fcall sum (array (lvar a) (lvar
>   b)))) (fcall puts (array (lvar c))))))))
>
> The interior (starting from "(defn sum...") is the same as you've got
> (minus the return statement), but I've got a lot of extra stuff
> wrapped around it. I've double checked the my sexp and parsetree gems
> are the latest (sexp-0.1, ParseTree-1.4.1).
>

I think you've deleted an extra line, try putting this in after your
result=ParseTree:

result = result[0][3][2][1][2..-1]

Or it might just be how you're running the script, I'm doing:

$ cat example.rb | ./parse.rb -f

hth,
Douglas