what is the ordering of an AST tree?

[Erwin S. Andreasen]

"stephene at sjsoft.com" <stephene at sjsoft.com> writes:

>>In my experience ( not  analysis ;)..yes--it's in the same order. Here's
>>the deriver module I ended up with last week, and some unittests which
>>demonstrate that, for simple expressions, at least, order is preserved.
>
> Great. I'm really hoping that that holds true for all cases. For now I'll
> just deal with the simple expressions.
>
> What I am trying to do then is essentially locate the most recent
> assignment that a variable has been given. The way I would assume to do
> that would be to traverse up the tree (assuming it is in fact in the order
> of the program flow) and search for the closest ASSIGN node that involves
> the variable name specified.

You may also have to go "sideways". E.g.:

if x > 42:
  val = True
else:
  val = False


Currently I'm working on some code to do small-scale static type
checking in Python using symbolic interpretation, which is essentially
a process where you do pseudo-evaluation of the code, noting variables
and their types and any problems.

Maybe such a process could also be useful to you, since at the same
time you can also note where each variable is assigned. It's fairly
easy with the help of compiler.visitor.


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