How to produce executable code using yecc?

[mfrasca]

@benwilson512

The result of quote is not something you execute. Instead of building Elixir AST and then trying to get it compiled, you’d be much better off just dynamically constructing the ecto query data structure itself.

I think I finally get your point. an AST (the value returned if I quote an expression) is a compile-time artifact, which I can compile, but not evaluate.

so instead of targeting the quote/AST, format, I should target the Ecto.Query format. and since I cannot do this from yecc (or can I? yecc is in Erlang), I need an intermediate representation. yet, for each production in the grammar (have you seen my grammar?), (production which combines simpler elements), I need a combining function/clause.

I will take a pause and read again in a few hours, but I have the impression that all the examples/hints I’ve been reading, they contain hard coded names or hard coded patterns.