Hi everyone, I believe you should be able to do this transformation with Rewrite Tool. The only problem I see is that you want to do this only with single symbol. Because, in my tool you can do: transform: *`#literal* into: *`#literal aMessage*. In this case `#literal means any literal, not only symbols. In other words it will transform $a into $a aMessage Also, this rule will transform, for instance 123 into 123 aMessage If I understand right, you would like to do this programatically, so you don't need RewriteTool in that case. Mark 2015-09-12 16:46 GMT+03:00 Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
If you don't want to manually operate on AST, you can use Mark's Rewrite Tool ( http://screencast.com/t/LCEl0hFl , https://medium.com/@peteruhnak/using-rewrite-tool-for-fixing-deprecated-code... )
As for ASTs I would be also curious about the answer, as this seems like it should be a simple task.
Peter
On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Julien Delplanque <julien@tamere.eu> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to modify the AST of a smalltalk expression compiled to automatically send a certain message when a node represents a Character (so the user does not have to write the message sending explicitly). I would of course add a special button in the menu you get when right clicking in a playground so the user knows it is a "special" do-it...
For example: $a. would transform into an ast that the source code looks like $a aMessage
How can I do this? :)
Julien