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