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# Ruby
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A representation of the ruby code.
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## Concrete Syntax tree
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Ruby is parsed by the parser gem (big thanks to whitequark). Own attempts at
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this task have failed utterly, because ruby is a _huge_ language (and not well
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defined at that)
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Alas, the parser gem creates an abstract syntax tree, meaning one class is used
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to represent all node types.
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Imho object oriented languages have a class system to do just that, ie represent
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what we may loosely call type here, ie the kind of statement.
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The ruby layer is really all about defining classes for every kind of statement,
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thus "typing" the syntax tree, and making it concrete.
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## to Vool
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In our nice layers, we are ont the way down to Vool, a simplified version of oo.
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It has proven handy to have this layer, so the code for transforming each object
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is in the class representing that object. (As one does in oo, again imho).
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## Parfait objects
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The compilation process ends up creating (parfait) objects to represent
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things like classes, types and constants. This is not done here yet, but in
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the vool layer.
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