José, thank you as always for your engagement.

I am basically hand-crafting the AST, mostly via leex/yecc with a few 
after-parsing transformations.  So I’m left with an AST in literal form (i.e. 
as a list of tuples - is that the right expression?).  What I’ve worked on in 
the mean time that does what I want  is:

  # Generate the functions to process plural rules
  @spec do_cardinal(binary, number, number, number, number, number, number) 
    :: :one | :two | :few | :many | :other
  Enum.each Cldr.known_locales, fn (locale) ->
    function_body = cardinal_rules[locale] |> 
rules_to_condition_statement(__MODULE__)
    function = quote do
      defp do_cardinal(unquote(locale), n, i, v, w, f, t), do: 
unquote(function_body)
    end
    Code.eval_quoted(function, [], __ENV__)
  end

In this case there’s no macro involved but I feel a little “unclean” about 
doing the Code.eval_quoted/3 part.


> On 29 Jul 2016, at 5:50 PM, José Valim <jose.va...@plataformatec.com.br> 
> wrote:
> 
> Well, quoted expressions are meant to represent the code unless it is 
> escaped, then you get the AST literal. So maybe the question is where the AST 
> is being escaped?
> 
> On Friday, July 29, 2016, Kip Cole <kipco...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:kipco...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I have a macro to define a function where one of the parameters is the AST of 
> the function body.  But I can't work out how to insert the AST. Example:
> 
>       defmacro define_do_cardinal(rules, locale) do
>         quote do
>           defp do_cardinal(unquote(locale), n, i, v, w, f, t), do: 
> unquote(rules)
>         end
>       end
>   
> unquote(rules) won't do it since unquoting doesn't add the code to the 
> function it just inserts the AST as a literal.  I could, I suppose, hand 
> craft the function header AST and insert the function body AST but that seems 
> more work than I would expect.
> 
> Is there a way to insert an AST as the code for a function body?
> 
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