On Dec 7, 2009, at 7:22 AM, Kevin Curtis wrote:
This covers the origin of the idea and some of it's uses: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2009-May/009234.html I'm interested in JsonML AST as a DSL target. Hacking the YACC file in jsc to parse the ES5 grammar as expressed in JsonML could yield an (executable) spec of sorts.
I can see how modifying the AST client-side prior to execution could be useful, to implement macro-like processing. But I don't see the use case for serializing an AST in JSON-like format, or sending it over the wire that way. It seems like it would be larger (and therefore slower to transmit), and likely no faster to parse, as compared to JavaScript source code. So shouldn't the serialization format just be JS source code?
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