From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-05-15T07:10:20+09:00
Subject: AST instrospection

I know this isn't something that's available yet, but I'd certainly like 
it to be on the wishlist...

If I could get the AST of a Proc object, I could do some real cool stuff 
with RHDL (like logic synthesis in addition to just simulation ;-)

So what I would like to be able to do is something like:

a = Proc.new { .... some Ruby code .... }
procAST = a.AST #get the AST for the proc 'a'

#walk thru the AST:
procAST.walk { |node|
  #do something with the nodes
}

Any plans for introspection down to the AST level?

Phil