Thanks for replying. That's bad news to me while I'm not really bothored by this problem. I just think it would be better if Julia does that.
I'm a CoffeeScript programmer, and programming languages is like a hobby. I've looked into several languages to see how AST works, Ruby does that, Elixir does that. Julia's AST is acutally quite similar to them, but not the same, it does not generate code from AST. I'm interested in indentation-based syntax and started my project. I tried to pull out Julia's AST as a compiler backend and use my project named Cirru as the frontend. Which can be see at https://github.com/Cirru/CirruSepal.jl#usage CirruSepal.jl will generate Julia AST from my syntax. So if there's an approach to generate Julia code from AST, then there's another interesting way to write Julia. Like we always do in JavaScript. Julia is great from my view that it's like a dynamic language, but internally it generates LLVM IR, which is far more interesting than JavaScript. JavaScript is like a compling target, and JavaScript AST is also a very good one. Compared to JavaScript AST, Julia's AST is interesting but lack of such features. On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 11:52 PM Kevin Squire <[email protected]> wrote: > There is no such function right now. In Julia, the common paradigm for > manipulating code is to manipulate the expression itself. > > You can, of course, output the expression, and it often looks better than > what David posted above (e.g., this is what parse outputs). > > Perhaps you can discuss a little more about what you're trying to do, and > someone here can tell you how (or if) it's typically done in Julia? > > Cheers, > Kevin > > > On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 8:04:21 AM UTC-7, Jiyin Yiyong wrote: >> >> No. I'm looking for a function that takes in Julia AST Expr and returns >> Julia code in string, a opposite of the function `parse`. >> >> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:55 PM Peter Brady <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Are you looking for 'eval'? >> >>
