Not sure, but maybe this is what you are looking for, https://gist.github.com/toivoh/4121122
On Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:49:39 AM UTC+1, Darwin Darakananda wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Is there currently a function that converts s-expressions into Expr > structures (basically the reverse of Base.Meta.show_sexpr)? > > I just started playing around with metaprogramming in Julia, so I'm > probably doing things wrong. But there are a lot of times where I end up > creating highly nested Expr objects, ending up with code that is > indecipherable. I've found that the output from show_sexpr is sometimes > easier to read that that of dump or xdump (which only seems to display the > first couple of levels). So I'm curious to see if the reverse > (s-expression -> Expr) is also true. > > If this function does not exist, would it be something that people would > find useful? > > Thanks and Happy New Years! > > Darwin >