Re: generating code from AST

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Adam Baratz <adambaratz@php.net> wrote: >> I'm exploring how to automate some basic kinds of refactor operations. One >> approach I'm considering: >> >> - Generate an AST >> - Rearrange it as needed >> - Turn it back into userland code >> >> Is this something anyone's explored? >> > The engine's internals actually have an ast export method which does > this alread (it's used by the assert message generator). astkit > makes use of this in an extension to do much of what you describe: > https://github.com/sgolemon/astkit > Hrmmm, I seem to have not updated the README.md, but it is in there: https://github.com/sgolemon/astkit/blob/master/astkit-node.c#L204-L214 -Sara