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Re: Source code "objectifying" technique?

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Subject Re: Source code "objectifying" technique?
Date Thu, 3 Jan 2013 20:33:08 +0000 (UTC)
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Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> wrote:
> My first question would be how you would distinguish between the
> global variables that you do want to convert and those (possibly)
> accidental ones like `a` in `ghi()` and `jkl()` above.

The "a" is a function parameter. It's practically a local object of that 
function rather than a global object. The code are merely examples that 
some functions depends on their own library's variable.

> But if you want to pursue this, I would suggest you look at Javascript
> parsers.  There are a number of them written in Javascript, including
> Uglify, Narcissus, Esprima, and Acorn.  I'm sure you can find them all
> quickly with a web search.  Once you have the abstract syntax tree
> representation of this code, especially if they tie all statements to
> lines/columns in the code, perhaps you would be able to use this to
> create a new representation that simply inserted "theLib." in all the
> correct spots.

Isn't Uglify a code compressor? I do have an "uglify.js", but it's based 
on simple regex search+replace. It's not aware of code syntax nor 
context. The other three are new to me. I'll check them out. Thanks.

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Source code "objectifying" technique? JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-01-03 10:34 +0000
  Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 19:32 +0100
    Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-01-03 20:13 +0000
      Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 23:57 +0100
        Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2013-01-04 00:44 +0100
        Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-01-04 02:00 +0000
  Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 10:37 -0800
    Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 10:43 -0800
    Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-01-03 20:33 +0000
      Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? Scott Sauyet <scott.sauyet@gmail.com> - 2013-01-03 13:09 -0800
        Re: Source code "objectifying" technique? JJ <jaejunks@nah.meh> - 2013-01-04 02:33 +0000

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