[Mono-list] Implementing attribute-based code generation

[Rodrigo B. de Oliveira]

Have you seen boo[1] yet? 

It sounds like you are talking about what we call syntactic attributes.

Best wishes,
Rodrigo

[1] http://boo.codehaus.org/

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> I'm looking into the potential of writing code to allow mono 
> to have extensions. As a first foray into the idea, I'm going 
> to try writing a module that would look for specific 
> attributes on methods and classes, and use those to generate 
> code that would go into the marked methods and all methods of 
> the marked classes, respectively.
> 
> However, looking at the mono source code, it seems to be very complex.
> I'm looking for hints as to the best place to put the hooks 
> for the extension, because of this. My first idea would be to 
> put this after the parsing of the source tree, so that I can 
> manipulate the methods as they're in memory. However, I can't 
> seem to find simple ways to navigate through the memory 
> representation of the source tree. Can anyone give me a brief 
> pointer to where I should be looking?
> 
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> Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>
>