ExprTools.jl

Light-weight expression manipulation tools
Author invenia
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January 2020

ExprTools

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ExprTools provides tooling for working with Julia expressions during metaprogramming. This package aims to provide light-weight performant tooling without requiring additional package dependencies.

Alternatively see the MacroTools package for a more powerful set of tools.

Currently, this package provides the splitdef, signature and combinedef functions which are useful for inspecting and manipulating function definition expressions.

  • splitdef works on a function definition expression and returns a Dict of its parts.
  • combinedef takes a Dict from splitdef and builds it into an expression.
  • signature works on a Method returning a similar Dict that holds the parts of the expressions that would form its signature.

e.g.

julia> using ExprTools

julia> ex = :(
           function Base.f(x::T, y::T) where T
               x + y
           end
       )
:(function Base.f(x::T, y::T) where T
      #= none:3 =#
      x + y
  end)

julia> def = splitdef(ex)
Dict{Symbol,Any} with 5 entries:
  :args        => Any[:(x::T), :(y::T)]
  :body        => quote:name        => :(Base.f)
  :head        => :function
  :whereparams => Any[:T]

julia> def[:name] = :g;

julia> def[:head] = :(=);

julia> def[:body] = :(x * y);

julia> g_expr = combinedef(def)
:((g(x::T, y::T) where T) = x * y)

julia> eval(g_expr)
g (generic function with 1 method)

julia> g_method = first(methods(g))
g(x::T, y::T) where T in Main

julia> signature(g_method)
Dict{Symbol,Any} with 3 entries:
  :name        => :g
  :args        => Expr[:(x::T), :(y::T)]
  :whereparams => Any[:T]