[erlang-questions] more flexible code generation

[Tim Watson]

Ulf - some feedback: this is totally AWESOME!

Damn I need to find time to go and refactor at least three projects to take advantage of this now.... :D

On 16 Dec 2012, at 11:39, Ulf Wiger wrote:

> 
> I made a little addition to my parse_trans library, in parse_trans_codegen:
> 
> The 'original' method for generating code for a function was e.g.:
> 
> g(Name, V) ->
>    codegen:gen_function(
>      Name,
>      fun(L) ->
>              member({'$var',V}, L)
>      end).
> 
> Where the {'$var', V} notation is a way to insert a reference to a variable, rather than using the variable itself. 
> 
> To illustrate, let's first create a little pretty-printer fun:
> 
> 1> PP = fun(F) -> io:fwrite("~s~n", [erl_pp:form(F)]) end.
> #Fun<erl_eval.6.82930912>
> 
> 
> 2> PP(ex_codegen:g(foo,17)).
> foo(L) ->
>    member(17, L).
> 
> There are a few other, similar, functions, but in some cases, this is still too restrictive. A few days ago, I added support for specifying a more dynamic pattern:
> 
> k(L) ->
>    codegen:gen_function(
>      lcf,
>      [fun({'$var',X}) ->
>               {'$var',Y}
>       end || {X, Y}  <- L]).
> 
> The list comprehension results in a list of clauses based on data resolved at run-time. For example:
> 
> 3> PP(ex_codegen:k([ {"a", {1,2,3}}, {"b", {4,5,6}} ])).
> lcf("a") ->
>    {1,2,3};
> lcf("b") ->
>    {4,5,6}.
> 
> https://github.com/uwiger/parse_trans/blob/master/doc/parse_trans_codegen.md
> 
> Feedback is welcome.
> 
> BR,
> Ulf W
> 
> Ulf Wiger, Co-founder & Developer Advocate, Feuerlabs Inc.
> http://feuerlabs.com
> 
> 
> 
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