[plt-scheme] getting a parse tree with bindings info

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 12:07  PM, Neil W. Van Dyke wrote:

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> A lot of the Scheme programming tools I want to write need to work
> directly with the source code, but using the variable bindings and
> syntax extension information that is resolved by syncheck.ss.
>
> I suspect I want a parse tree that's annotated with bindings resolution
> and source position information.
>
> Should I just clone the syncheck.ss code and adapt it?  Or is there
> already an easier way to get at the information?

Have you tried simply examining the result of 'expand'?  That is, 
expand takes a syntax object or s-expression and coerces it (including 
macro-expansion) into a syntax object in the core forms of MzScheme.  
This syntax object is annotated with source positions and binding 
information.  In fact, DrScheme has a notion of display for such 
objects; if the result of evaluation is a syntax object, DrScheme will 
expose a certain amount of information about that object in a graphical 
way.

To put it another way, I think you will find that the 'interesting' 
part of the computation performed by syncheck (that is, the association 
of bindings with variables and the expansion of macros) is performed by 
a call to 'expand'.

Hope this helps,

john clements