On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Kevin Curtis wrote: > No spec as yet - more a speculative prototype. > > The patch creates a subdir 'ast-test' in the V8 dir which contain a > range of JS source examples covering the ECMAScript grammar. These > examples (and any other JS scripts) can be parsed to JsonML using the > ast-parse.sh shell script (which calls JSON.AST.Parse()): > ./ast-parse.sh ast-test/forin.js > > The project is an attempt to use the (already pretty generic) JsonML > output feature offered by the V8 deug shell as a starting point for a > generic standarized JSON AST format. Thus, output from from an > unpatched V8 debug shell can also give a good feel of what the JsonML > looks like. (Note: this output is incomplete - it prints only the node > name for some AST constructs): > ./shell_g file.js --print-json-ast > > It would be useful to get a feel whether the general idea is a starter > - or non-starter. Maybe it merits a wiki straw man entry.
Maybe i've missed an email or something, but what is the purpose of this spec? What is it trying to let developers do? --Oliver _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
