Question/Feature request

[thisfred]

I was trying out comby and wanted to do the following refactoring:

dict(foo=bar,baz=qux)

=>

{"foo": bar, "baz": qux}

but I can't find a way to repeatedly apply a pattern within a particular scope. Am I missing how to do this, or is this not currently possible?

[rvantonder]

It's possible, but not documented yet :) What you do is use a nested rewrite rule like this: https://bit.ly/2LY8N3z

I'll update the docs in the advanced/exerpimental feature section. For future questions feel free to head over to gitter: https://gitter.im/comby-tools/community. I appreciate this question, it's helped me to refer people to gitter when starting an issue in case it's about writing a pattern. Thanks for popping in!

[rvantonder]

For posterity:

dict(:[args]) -> {:[args]}

where rewrite :[args] { 
  ":[[k]]=:[[v]]" -> "\":[k]\": :[v]"
}

:)

[thisfred]

That's awesome, thank you!

[rvantonder]

You are very welcome. I've updated the docs, and used your example :)