Hi,

At Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:44:44 +0900,
Jason Roelofs wrote in [ruby-core:24691]:
> What about the many other libraries that exist to dig into,
> or work directly with, the Ruby node structure? Like
> Nodewrap, RubyNode, ParseTree
> (http://blog.zenspider.com/2009/04/parsetree-eol.html), Rice,
> etc.

Impossible.  AST is no longer available at runtime, since now
it's a transient structure which will be discarded after the
translation to byte code.

> Are they all supposed to work towards being included into
> Ruby core / Ruby stdlib? I think authors / maintainers of
> these libraries, myself included, will completely understand
> that accessing this information may change across versions if
> we can at least get proper access to this information.

I think debugger-API should be introduced, but don't think
whole of ruby-debug (and others) should be included.

-- 
Nobu Nakada