Issue #21795 has been updated by kddnewton (Kevin Newton). Thanks @mame for the detailed reply! I appreciate your thoughtfulness here. With regard to the implementation approach problem, I love your solution of keeping a source hash on the iseq. I think that makes a lot of sense, and could be used in error highlight today as well. That could potentially even be used by other tools in the case of code reloading. I think we _could_ potentially store the code for eval, but I would be tempted to say let us not change anything for now and return `nil` or raise an error in that case. (In the same way we would need to return `nil` or raise an error for C methods.) For the parser switching problem, I think I would like to introduce a Prism ABI version (alongside the Prism gem version). I would update this version whenever a structural change is made (field added/renamed/removed/etc.). Then, if we could store the Prism ABI version on the ISEQ as well, we could require prism and check if the ABI version matches before attempting to re-parse. We could be clear through the error message that the Prism ABI version is a mismatch and therefore we cannot re-parse. I am not sure if we should return RubyVM::AST nodes in the case the ISEQ was compiled with parse.y/compile.c, but I am okay with it if that's the direction you would like to go. ---------------------------------------- Feature #21795: Methods for retrieving ASTs https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/21795#change-115986 * Author: kddnewton (Kevin Newton) * Status: Open ---------------------------------------- I would like to propose a handful of methods for retrieving ASTs from various objects that correspond to locations in code. This includes: * Proc#ast * Method#ast * UnboundMethod#ast * Thread::Backtrace::Location#ast * TracePoint#ast (on call/return events) The purpose of this is to make tooling easier to write and maintain. Specifically, this would be able to be used in irb, power_assert, error_highlight, and various other tools both in core and not that make use of source code. There have been many previous discussions of retrieving node_id, source_location, source, etc. All of these use cases are covered by returning the AST for some entity. In this case node_id becomes an implementation detail, invisible to the user. Source location can be derived from the information on the AST itself. Similarly, source can be derived from the AST. Internally, I do not think we have to store any more information than we already do (since we have node_id for the first four of these, it becomes rather trivial). For TracePoint we can have a larger discussion about it, but I think it should not be too much work. In terms of implementation, the only caveat I would put is that if the ISEQ were compiled through the old parser/compiler, this should return `nil`, as the node ids do not match up and we do not want to further propagate the RubyVM::AST API. The reason I am opening up this ticket with 5 different methods requested in it is to get approval first for the direction, then I can open individual tickets or just PRs for each method. I believe this feature would ease the maintenance burden of many core libraries, and unify otherwise disparate efforts to achieve the same thing. -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/