On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 8:14 AM Ricky Teachey <ricky@teachey.org> wrote:

It's a neat idea but I agree with the others that as proposed, it's probably too focused on turning python into a better mathematics tool, rather than turning python into a better programming language.

That being said, from a more generalist standpoint I wonder if it would be useful in many connects other than symbolic math to have a way to "get to" and work with the actual written code in a module from inside that same module. Essentially to parse actual lines of code, not strings containing code, into an AST, and work with it.

You can essentially do this using import hooks as I have mentioned many times on this list. A good example of what one can accomplish by transforming and AST is given by MacroPy: https://macropy3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I also gave various examples of using import hooks to modify Python's syntax using https://github.com/aroberge/ideas which I wrote to facilitate such experimentation -- although I consider this more of a toy than anything resembling a professional and robust package.

André Roberge