[erlang-questions] dynamic module compilation

[Jacob Perkins]

So I decided to try generating the AST, and got most of the way there. I
don't want to use ets because I don't want to have a process dependency.
I was able to use compile:forms to generate a module and function, but my
function clause isn't correct. The function and clause forms I can get to
compile are:

{function, LINE, strings, 0,
    [{clause, LINE, [], [],
        [{string, LINE, "foo"}, {string, LINE, "bar"}]}]}

But the above form appears to generate

strings() -> "foo", "bar".

when what I really want is

strings() -> ["foo", "bar"].

It's probably a simple fix in the forms, but the obvious change of enclosing
the string literals in another list causes a compile error:

{function, LINE, strings, 0,
    [{clause, LINE, [], [],
        [[{string, LINE, "foo"}, {string, LINE, "bar"}]]}]}

Any help?
Thanks,
Jacob

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Howard Yeh <hayeah@REDACTED> wrote:

> see ERTS manual chapter 4 to see the abstract format.
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/part_frame.html
>
> there's also Core Erlang. But I am not sure where it's documented.
>
>
> On 6/8/08, Robert Virding <rvirding@REDACTED> wrote:
> > There are basically two ways of doing this:
> >
> > - From you list of files generate a file, grammar.erl, containing the
> module
> > grammar with functions adjectives/0 and nouns/0. You then compile with
> > compile:file and load with code:load.
> >
> > - You can generate the code as AST in memory and then compile with
> > compile:forms. This is a bit tricky the first time, but easy once you get
> > the hang of it.
> >
> > - As someone else mentioned save them in a database on disk.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > 2008/6/8 Jacob Perkins <japerk@REDACTED>:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I need some help understanding how to dynamically compile/generate an
> > erlang module. I've seen other projects do this kind of thing, such as
> > erlydtl, but my needs are much simpler.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a few files that are basically lists of words. What I want to do
> is
> > generate a module whose functions will return each list of words. So if I
> > have two files named "adjectives" and "nouns", then the generated module
> > (let's call it 'grammar') should have two functions, adjectives() and
> > nouns(), that return their respective list of words.
> > >
> > >
> > > How can I do this?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Jacob
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