Re: partial evaluation / removing directives

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Alex Fedotov <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well, I did not get into the details, but the idea would be to replace the
> ASTIfStatement with a sequence of AST nodes that would output the "#IF"
> text followed by the result of rewriting the children, etc. followed by the
> "#END" text.
> I think the SimpleNode does not have a particularly friendly public
> interface to facilitate this kind of thing. I remember I had to resort to
> using reflection and accessing protected/private members directly.

sounds like something that could be improved.  you could always open a
JIRA issue for this and/or provide a patch. :)

> Alex
>
>
> As for the AST rewrite idea, if it was possible to "Burn down" nodes to
>> their corresponding text something like that would work, However, wouldnt'
>> that then possibly miss additional child elements in that AST tree? For
>> instance a clause in an if statement which had a resourceBundle reference?
>>  I'm not too familiar with ASTs (been years since I dealt with those at
>> school), maybe I can look at it a bit more today.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Pete
>>
>>