From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T05:02:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Traversing the contents of a proc (for a DSL)


On Nov 15, 2009, at 09:32 , Kyle wrote:

> Generally - no. A proc is compiled code, it doesn't remember its own source 
> code. There are libraries that provide some deeper introspection tools -- like 
> the ParseTree / Ruby2Ruby libraries. Also, there are several DSLs very simllar 
> to what you're talking about already -- check out Markaby: 
> 
> http://markaby.rubyforge.org/

agreed... except don't look at markaby. It is overly complicated and overly clevar (and slow as a result). Look at Ara's tagz. Excellent implementation.