Re: [Python-ideas] Enabling access to the AST for Python code

Hi Ben, On 2015-05-21 10:10 PM, Ben Hoyt wrote:

Hmmm, yeah, I think you're basically suggesting macro-like processing of the AST. Pretty cool, but not quite what I was thinking of ... I was thinking select() would get an AST object at runtime and do stuff with it.

Unfortunately, it's not that easy. Storing AST would require a lot of extra memory in runtime. You have to somehow mark the places where you need it syntactically. I like how it's done in Rust: select!( ... ) Yury