Hi everyone,

I believe you should be able to do this transformation with Rewrite Tool.
The only problem I see is that you want to do this only with single symbol.
Because, in my tool you can do:

transform: *`#literal* into: *`#literal aMessage*.
In this case `#literal means any literal, not only symbols.
In other words it will transform

$a into  $a aMessage

Also, this rule will transform, for instance
123 into 123 aMessage

If I understand right, you would like to do this programatically, so you
don't need RewriteTool in that case.

Mark

2015-09-12 16:46 GMT+03:00 Peter Uhnák <[email protected]>:

> If you don't want to manually operate on AST, you can use Mark's Rewrite
> Tool ( http://screencast.com/t/LCEl0hFl ,
> https://medium.com/@peteruhnak/using-rewrite-tool-for-fixing-deprecated-code-12a595b291d8
> )
>
> As for ASTs I would be also curious about the answer, as this seems like
> it should be a simple task.
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Julien Delplanque <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I would like to modify the AST of a smalltalk expression compiled to
>> automatically send a certain message
>> when a node represents a Character (so the user does not have to write
>> the message sending explicitly).
>> I would of course add a special button in the menu you get when right
>> clicking in a playground so the user
>> knows it is a "special" do-it...
>>
>> For example:
>>     $a.
>> would transform into an ast that the source code looks like
>>     $a aMessage
>>
>> How can I do this? :)
>>
>> Julien
>>
>>
>

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