Re: Syntax trees from strings

[John W. Eaton]

On 06/28/2013 08:24 AM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> On Jun 28, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Generating parse trees from code would be very useful for automated
> > code generation as well...and research in general of course.
> > I would like to know what is their stand in relation to releasing
> > their developments back to the community. In Octconf the speaker from
> > Coursera politely avoided my question in this regard.
>
> I don't have an answer for this question (I'm not the one working one this, I'm 
> just passing on a question I was asked in the hallway).
>
> But if anybody knows if we are able to generate syntax trees from a string 
> (rather than a file) then I'd be interested to hear about it.

The eval function generates a parse tree and then evaluates it.  Look at 
eval_string in oct-parse.in.yy in the current sources.

jwe