Hi Steve The formatter extracts comments from Elixir source like so: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/9cf118bd123deb945be71bf3ea2b48cd271088f0/lib/elixir/lib/code/formatter.ex#L199-L225
This may help you. Cheers, Louis On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 17:59 Steve Morin <steve.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wanted to see what peoples thoughts are about adding comments to the AST. > > One use-case is to be able to parse and manipulate Source files outside of > just macros but in that case you would want to be able to preserve > comments. > > E.g. Read a source file, manipulate it, write that source file back to a > file. > > This would allow people/tooling to use elixir to parse and manipulate > source files. > > If this might disturb existing consumers of the AST maybe this could be > added as a option to existing Macro functions so that I could be turned on > for people with this use-case. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/955237D8-31DE-448C-9777-1104F1175DC7%40gmail.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CABu8xFCqNwQWGjr7PmeGgNOsKBcbFfQHoKLXmZuHahSv_vTxtA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
