From: Florian Gilcher <flo@...>
Date: 2009-11-16T05:33:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Traversing the contents of a proc (for a DSL)


On Nov 15, 2009, at 4:32 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:

>
> 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.

Markaby is also Ruby 1.8 only, though I can't figure out why. Some of  
the clevarness kind of fails to be portable.

Regards,
Florian