That's what the compiler does, as long as the code is compiled. It is not the job of a parser to do this.
*José Valimhttps://dashbit.co/ <https://dashbit.co/>* On Fri, Aug 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM benjamin...@gmail.com < benjaminschult...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> *José Valimhttps://dashbit.co/ <https://dashbit.co/>* >> >> >> 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. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to elixir-lang-co...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b7b48090-7022-4f14-b92b-2732272fc151n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/b7b48090-7022-4f14-b92b-2732272fc151n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/4f39f203-881f-4019-8a75-7724884e864an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/4f39f203-881f-4019-8a75-7724884e864an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4%2BerdPhrBzOUzro%2BL-2GeC0gsEv0H861STJujQfbuJNhw%40mail.gmail.com.
