I believe we do it for certain functions in Elixir's stdlib and the Erlang
compiler (which we invoke) does it too.


*José Valimhttps://dashbit.co/ <https://dashbit.co/>*


On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM benjamin...@gmail.com <
benjaminschult...@gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK, then the compiler does not perform const evaluation.
>
> iex(9)> quote(do: 1+2*3)
> {:+, [context: Elixir, imports: [{1, Kernel}, {2, Kernel}]],
>  [1, {:*, [context: Elixir, imports: [{2, Kernel}]], [2, 3]}]}
>
> iex(10)> quote(do: 1+2*3)
> 7
>
> Are there any plans to implement this, if not what is the recommended
> approach to do this, when working on an AST.
>
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