From: Thomas Mueller <thomasmueller76@...>
Date: 2008-03-05T12:32:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Inspecting a block given to a method

I think that'll be sufficient. My goal is to make it easy for the user
(which is mainly myself) to be lazy :-) and activate the fields
automatically. If I can't capture the usage of some fields sometimes
then those fields can still manually be activated.
I'm already installing ParseTree and will try that out. Looks promising.

Thanks a lot.


2008/3/5, Christopher Dicely <cmdicely@gmail.com>:
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>
> Hmm. That's trickier.  You could create an method on some convenient class
>  (or object) from the block with define_method, and then use ParseTree to get
>  the parse tree of that method, and walk through the resulting s-expression to
>  find out which fields are called. Though if any of the fields are determined
>  dynamically, that won't work, because you won't have the results of the
>  dynamic determination, just the parse tree of the code that would get it.
>
>  (My ParseTree-fu isn't strong enough to sketch out code to demonstrate that,
>  but conceptually, with the caveat about dynamic determination of fields,
>  it seems at least possible.)
>
>