From: "James M. lawrence" <quixoticsycophant@...>
Date: 2011-02-20T02:51:54+09:00
Subject: Re: LiveAST: a pure Ruby 1.9.2 library for obtaining live abstract syntax trees

Stephen Prater wrote in post #982526:
> how does this work exactly?  It hooks into the require / eval
> mechanism and then runs all the code through a separate parser?

Kernel#require is not touched. In MRI eval _can_ be replaced, but at the 
price of syntax restrictions surrounding its use. It would be needless 
to run _all_ code through a separate parser; only code tied to an AST 
request is parsed (with RubyParser, though the parser can be replaced). 
For anyone who's curious, the readme should (I hope) contain enough 
explanation.

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