[OT] code is data

[Laurent Pointal]

Fredrik Lundh a écrit :
> Laurent Pointal wrote:
> 
>>>> The idea is to have a way to transform a Python (.py) module into XML
>>>> and then do source code manipulations in XML-space using ElementTree.
>>>
>>> My my my... I'm not against the idea of dynamic source code
>>> transformation, but for heaven's sake, *why* would one put XML in the
>>> mix ???????
> 
> because lots of people know how to describe XML transformations, and
> there are plenty of tools that implement such transformations efficiently ?
> 
>> Because its "à la mode", and is better for a commercial point of view,
>> even if inefficient for this problem.
> 
> why would XML be inefficient ?

As a storage tool, its nice, and as you says, there are many tools to
deal with.

But as an internal representation for an AST, I certainly prefer an
ad-hoc classes definitions with well defined members.
Just have a wrapper between both representations.


Laurent

A+