Quoting Roland Zwaga <rol...@stackandheap.com>:
I was thinking, maybe I'm not thinking in enough 5th dimensional thought
here.
I'm not married to linked tokens, because other than Gordon helping out I
highly doubt I would even have time to implement that with the current
parser.
The code when parsed has insane AST source offsets to everything in the
actual source file. If we were "injecting" AST into a class/method/etc., we
would just basically be substringing it with a replace. The code generation
could be done already with the AS emitter I have already made with FalconJx!
Holy #$%@! I think that might actually work! :)
Hm, sounds pretty sweet. If its not too much work to create a small
experiment to proof your theory than this could be a worthy approach :)
Heh, you know me, I will probably have something working sooner than
later. If I don't waste to much time making trance music...
Generating extra classes etc shouldn't be a problem I suppose?
We can already do this with ASEmitter.java in FalconJx, look at all
the unit tests. :)
What the AOP bits would do, in a nutshell, would basically be renaming an
existing class, creating a new class with the old name of this class (and
making it a subclass of the original) and then creating overridden methods
in the new class.
Come to think of, with this approach we wouldn't even need to inject
subtrees into existing AST's... All I need to do is rename certain classes,
I'm guessing that that wouldn't be too much of a hassle, right?
Right, API to IClassNode.setName("MyClassBase")
There is a step here that doesn't exist which would be like
writeChanges(whatChanges), which is about the only aspect of this that
needs more than 10 minutes of thought, everything else is covered.
Side note; The Falcon parser is so fast that to update offsets after
code is inserted is just a matter of reparsing the file with the new
code, this will give you updated AST without changing the source file
yet.
Mike
Roland
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