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Gotcha. Pretty much the template language is close enough to the destination language that you don’t need an AST for the template language at all.

That makes sense! Seems like a legit simplification to take advantage of.

Do you have any plans to make the template language more advanced/complex?

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Well, looking at the rails monocles (for matching controllers, views, etc) a common pattern is custom matchers/replacers for things like "ast.children.first.to_s.singularize.camelize", so a shorthand for defining those in both directions could be handy. Other than that, not right now.

But if there are common situations where you end up writing the same matchers/replacers, those would be prime candidates for built-in placeholders.

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