From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-10-10T17:32:31+09:00
Subject: Re: parse tree for 1.9


On Oct 10, 2008, at 01:02 , Alex Fenton wrote:

> Roger Pack wrote:
>> Anybody know if there is anything like parse_tree for 1.9?
>> Thanks!
>
>
> Perhaps RubyVM::InstructionSequence.compile or  
> RubyVM::InstructionSequence::compile_file will do something similar  
> to what you want. These methods are standard in 1.9

unfortunately, no... that's not even close. :(

I've asked multiple times if we could get bytecode for procs and short  
of writing more C extensions to hack it out myself, I doubt it'll ever  
show. Even still, we'd have to write a bytecode decompiler to  
something that was remotely readable/usable. That's a lot of work.