Are you trying to instrument all creation of typed instances?
On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 11:24:25 PM UTC-5, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>
> Do you want to create DB entries when other programmer's types are called?
>
> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 11:22:10 PM UTC-5, Julia Tylors wrote:
>>
>> But the you can't be doing this for every new type which is being defined
>> by other programmers.
>> So I need more general way. For every constructor of every type,
>> That makes it a bit problematic.
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 7:59:11 PM UTC-8, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Julia,
>>>
>>> The simplest way to do this is to make Foo a type and define its type
>>> constructor to behave as you wish.
>>>
>>> type Foo
>>> n::Float64
>>> end
>>>
>>> function Foo(n::Float64)
>>> record = createRecordForFooDB(n)
>>> saveRecordInFooDB(record)
>>> println("saved Foo($(n)) to DB")
>>> end
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 10:49:12 PM UTC-5, Julia Tylors wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi, my end goal is whenever a constructor call is made, I want to
>>>> detect it and keep track of it by creating an object
>>>>
>>>> For example
>>>> f = Foo(12)
>>>> I want to detect this and create a record and save it to a db.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, January 3, 2016 at 6:58:49 PM UTC-8, Isaiah wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> There is no AST-level distinction between a "constructor call" and a
>>>>> "normal function call", see [1]. Look at the code in 'reflection.jl' to
>>>>> see
>>>>> how to determine the applicable method for a given name (which may be a
>>>>> constructor). If that doesn't help, it would be helpful to clarify the
>>>>> goal.
>>>>>
>>>>> For return statements, use `expand(a)` to convert the expression to
>>>>> goto form, which should contain only explicit returns.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/8712
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 6:52 PM, Julia Tylors <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am planning to detect the constructor calls and return statement of
>>>>>> a function
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a = quote begin
>>>>>> x = Foo(12)
>>>>>> y = 5 + 6
>>>>>> f(x.val,y)
>>>>>> x.val * y
>>>>>> end
>>>>>>
>>>>>> a is an Expr, in this expression , I would like to detect the
>>>>>> constructor calls (Foo(12)( and distinguish them from normal function
>>>>>> calls(fx.val,y).
>>>>>> and i also want to identify the return statement, (x.val*y). How can
>>>>>> i do it programmatically?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
