On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Alex Burr writes:
> >> In theory you could write one as a perl6 macro, although it would be
> >> more convenient if there was someway of obtaining the syntax tree of a
> >> previously defined function other than quoting it (unless I've missed
> >> that?).
> >
> > There is a large class of cool optimizations possible when you combine
> > notifications with storing the syntax tree at runtime, so I think it
> > will be possible to get the syntax tree of a previously defined
> > function. Probably just a method on Code objects.
>
> I'll be very disappointed if you can't get the syntax tree at
> runtime, though I have the feeling that it might require a
> compilation switch of some sort.
The syntax tree will be stored by default, though it will be strippable
from the bytecode files for space and/or paranoia reasons.
Dan
