In the same file, we have --print-ast, which is a decent visualization of
what's actually in the AST (and I know Ross just used it last week to help
triage a bug that I eventually fixed).

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Yang Guo <[email protected]> wrote:

> I haven't used it ever, and I don't know anyone who did. Given that the
> parser does a lot of desugaring nowadays, I don't think it still makes
> sense to keep it.
>
> Then again, maybe we could re-purpose it as a tool to visualize parser
> desugaring? I use --trace-regexp-parser a lot when adding new regexp
> features, which essentially prints the regexp AST in a custom format for my
> viewing pleasure.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yang
>
> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 9:39 PM Adam Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm doing some cleanup in the AST which required modifications to
>> prettyprinter.cc (in particular, I'm talking about PrettyPrinter, not
>> AstPrinter or CallPrinter, which are also in that file). My cleanup was in
>> ForOfStatement, where I'm trying to remove members that aren't actually
>> used by consumers of the AST. But I'm not sure it's worth much work here to
>> make this output readable. Here's the current output, in the face of all
>> our desugaring:
>>
>> $ d8 -e 'for (x of []);'
>> [generating full code for user-defined function: ]
>> --- Source from AST ---
>> {  = undefined;  = 0; try { try { { .result = undefined; for (x of [
>>  literal_index = 0 ]) { ;  = 0;  } } } catch (.catch) { if (( === 2))  = 1;
>> .result = %ReThrow
>> (.catch); } } finally .result = .result; if ((!(( === 0) || (.iterator
>> === undefined))))  = (.iterator).return; if (( == null)) ; else if (( ===
>> 1)) { if (((typeof ) === "function")) ; else throw %NewTypeError
>> (130, ""); try { %_Call
>> (, .iterator); } catch (.catch) { } } else {  = %_Call
>> (, .iterator); if (%_IsJSReceiver
>> ()) ; else %ThrowIteratorResultNotAnObject
>> (); }  .result = .result;  } return .result;
>>
>> [lots of other generated source]
>>
>> That's pretty darn unreadable already. Is this something worth fixing?
>> I've personally never used this flag; does anyone else, or know of a time
>> when it was useful?
>>
>> - Adam
>>
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