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Transform "local variables" to method calls when they're not really variables...

Open vidarh opened this issue 15 years ago • 0 comments

The parser will treat "foo" by itself as a local variable because it initially doesn't know if it's a local variable or a method call. When we have identified the set of local variables, we need to transform the set of what looks like local vars but isn't in the identified set into [:callm, :self, var,[]] instead.

(Note: This also forces us to ensure the s-expression syntax is exempt from being rewritten, and to rewrite of any calls to C functions to use the s-expression syntax to still have a way of calling out... Maybe time to look at FFI instead soon)

vidarh avatar May 08 '09 13:05 vidarh