El viernes, 19 de septiembre de 2014 08:58:56 UTC-5, Isaiah escribió:
>
> To do what you want, very briefly:
>
> > x.args[3] == :pi && x.args[3] = Expr(:call, :BigFloat, :pi)
>
> This will make more sense if you look at `xdump` output to see how Exprs 
> are structured
> (and `xdump` is quite handy to know about in general). Try:
>
>
> > xdump(:(big(3) + big(pi)))
> ...
>
>
Yes, that's what I need, thanks. Now I need to iterate over the (in 
principle arbitrarily complex, i.e. nested) syntax tree and do this 
everywhere. 
Is there a standard method for this kind of iteration?
 

>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:42 AM, David P. Sanders <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> El viernes, 19 de septiembre de 2014 08:34:05 UTC-5, David P. Sanders 
>> escribió:
>>>
>>> Hi, for a package I'm writing (or, more precisely, trying to write), I 
>>> need to do the following:
>>>
>>> Change `:(3 + pi)` 
>>> into `:(3 + big(pi))`  
>>> or `:(BigFloat(3) + BigFloat(pi))`
>>>
>>
>> I forgot to say that I need to do this so that I can perform the 
>> calculations with different rounding modes.
>>  
>>
>>>
>>> Basically I need to apply `BigFloat` to every symbol in the expression. 
>>> (I believe that it would be sufficient to wrap `MathConst`s in `big`, but 
>>> converting everything to BigFloat is probably a good idea.)
>>>
>>> This is my first foray into parsing etc. I'm guessing there's a package 
>>> that allows me to do this easily -- could someone please point it out?
>>> Or how should I go about this?
>>>
>>> In principle the expressions could be more complicated, e.g.  `(3 + pi) 
>>> * (2.5 - e)`
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David.
>>>
>>
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