From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2002-05-15T07:35:23+09:00
Subject: Re: AST instrospection

Phil Tomson wrote:
> 
> 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 ;-)

I'll second that wish. In my application/library, user code has blocks
that can assign to C struct members using accessors. But it is very easy
to forget about Ruby and type "x = 3" instead of "self.x = 3". IIUC,
having the Proc's AST would let me at least warn about this kind of
mistake, or even correct it. Also, there would be the possibility of
generating C code from the AST... very cool!