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Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:42:43 -0600
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To: Adam Baratz <adambaratz@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] generating code from AST
From: pollita@php.net (Sara Golemon)

On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Sara Golemon <pollita@php.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 3:37 PM, Adam Baratz <adambaratz@php.net> wrote:
>> I'm exploring how to automate some basic kinds of refactor operations. One
>> approach I'm considering:
>>
>>    - Generate an AST
>>    - Rearrange it as needed
>>    - Turn it back into userland code
>>
>> Is this something anyone's explored?
>>
> The engine's internals actually have an ast export method which does
> this alread (it's used by the assert message generator).   astkit
> makes use of this in an extension to do much of what you describe:
> https://github.com/sgolemon/astkit
>
Hrmmm, I seem to have not updated the README.md, but it is in there:
https://github.com/sgolemon/astkit/blob/master/astkit-node.c#L204-L214

-Sara