Issue #14844 has been reported by rmosolgo (Robert Mosolgo).
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Feature #14844: Future of RubyVM::AST?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/14844
* Author: rmosolgo (Robert Mosolgo)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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* Target version:
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Hi! Thanks for all your great work on the Ruby language.
I saw the new RubyVM::AST module in 2.6.0-preview2 and I quickly went to try it out.
I'd love to have a well-documented, user-friendly way to parse and manipulate Ruby code using the Ruby standard library, so I'm pretty excited to try it out. (I've been trying to learn Ripper recently, too: https://ripper-preview.herokuapp.com/, https://rmosolgo.github.io/ripper_events/ .)
Based on my exploration, I opened a small PR on GitHub with some documentation: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/1888
I'm curious though, are there future plans for this module? For example, we might:
- Add more details about each node (for example, we could expose the names of identifiers and operators through the node classes)
- Document each node type
I see there is a lot more information in the C structures that we could expose, and I'm interested to help out if it's valuable. What do you think?
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