From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-02-22T00:39:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby to Parrot compiler

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:54:25 -0500, Sean Ross wrote:
> This is probably naive, but I was wondering why you couldn't just use Ruby's
> existing front-end implementation to parse and build an AST, and then build
> a seperate generator that takes the AST as input to compile and emit 
[snip]

Cool.. a ruby2ast converter.

Question: is the AST a bunch of ruby classes, which can be
manipulated/navigated through Ruby?


One day, I hope, to extend my editor so it can interact with Rubys AST, 
then some really nice things becomes possible:

* advanced syntax coloring which can identify syntax-errors.
* obtain advanced help about the code under the cursor.
* advanced code completion.


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Simon Strandgaard