Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Burr writes: >> In theory you could write one as a perl6 macro, although it would be >> more convenient if there was someway of obtaining the syntax tree of a >> previously defined function other than quoting it (unless I've missed >> that?). > > There is a large class of cool optimizations possible when you combine > notifications with storing the syntax tree at runtime, so I think it > will be possible to get the syntax tree of a previously defined > function. Probably just a method on Code objects.
I'll be very disappointed if you can't get the syntax tree at runtime, though I have the feeling that it might require a compilation switch of some sort.
