From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2002-10-24T18:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: NODE tree introspection

On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:41:24AM +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> In article <20021023172146.GB26640@student.ei.uni-stuttgart.de>,
> Mauricio Fern�ndez  <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:59:54AM +0900, Simon Cozens wrote:
> >> 
> >> I've been considering writing something for Ruby similar to the Perl
> >> B.pm module; this is a module which provides Perl-level access to the
> >> bytecode op tree, so that other modules can walk the op tree in
> >> various interesting ways. This is the way the Perl to C compiler was
> >> implemented. (however unsuccessfully...)
> >> 
> >> It seems reasonably easy to do in Ruby, just by wrapping the NODE*
> >> structures as Ruby objects. Has anyone already done this or tried
> >> working on it?
> >
> >
> >http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RubyInRuby
> >http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/8693
> >http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/6885
> >
> >I believe somebody attempted to ... uhmmm... do something using rockit.
> >
> 
> Yes there are other projects out there with the goal of doing what Simon 
> is trying to accomplish (see also Ruth).  However, it seems that perhaps 
> the approach that he is taking might lead to something....

Funny, I should have read more about previous attempts to do 'Ruby in
Ruby', for I really thought that Simon's approach was THE approach :-)

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