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Hacking S-expressions into Ruby (sonnym.github.io)
31 points by sonnym 4131 days ago
2 comments
_mikz 4130 days ago
` puts RubyVM::InstructionSequence.compile('[]').disasm` points to `newarray` which is YARV instruction: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/ca6b174078fa15f33655be704d...
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lectrick 4130 days ago
I don't suppose there's a way to hook into newarray ...?

Maybe a gem with a C component could provide a hook?

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aaronem 4130 days ago
At some point it's surely simpler just to write a Lisp interpreter instead.
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lectrick 4128 days ago
Or switch to Elixir and its nifty macro system, which I did.
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lookatparsetree 4130 days ago
Have a look at https://github.com/seattlerb/parsetree
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bradleyland 4129 days ago
That version only works with 1.8. There is an updated fork though, sexp_processor:

https://github.com/seattlerb/sexp_processor

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