>From Günter Khyo: Günter Khyo wrote > Hello! > > I want to replace particular nodes of an AST (such as Assignments or Self > sends) with my own nodes. > Is there an easy (high-level) way to do this without being familiar with > the entire compiler infrastructure? > > The problem I am having is that AST nodes maintain internal state such as > parent links and, in the case of RBVariables, links to scopes and > bindings. There might be many other dependencies I am missing and missing > one of them can trigger exceptions with stack traces buried deep in the IR > Code-Generator and visitor calls. > > For example, if I want to replace an assignment such as > > Morph>>position: aPoint > > "box := self fullBounds." > > with something like > > "self assignAndNotifiyDependents: self fullBounds to: 'box' " > > Btw: I know there is a rewrite tool, but I want to do it programmatically. > > Thanks!
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