Yeah, I should have been clearer, I'm looking for const evaluation of
expressions e.g
iex> Code.string_to_quoted!("1+2*3")
7
On Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 4:19:44 PM UTC-4 José Valim wrote:
> I believe we do it for certain functions in Elixir's stdlib and the Erlang
> compiler (which we invoke) does it too.
>
>
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> On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM benjamin...@gmail.com <
> benjamin...@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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