[grammarians] Parser generator

Jean-Etienne DURAND etienne.durand at mail.com
Mon Dec 19 09:19:01 EST 2005


As Martin Traverso advice, i had a look at ANTLRV3 and http://split-s.blogspot.com/2005/12/antlr-for-ruby.html
Works fine for ascii characters, but I have some difficulties to make it work for unicode characters.

Anybody had similiar experiences? 

Regards,
Jean-Etienne

----- Original Message -----
From: MenTaLguY <mental at rydia.net>
To: "Jean-Etienne DURAND" <etienne.durand at mail.com>
Subject: Re: [grammarians] Parser generator
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 11:51:13 -0500

> 
>   On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 03:05 -0500, Jean-Etienne DURAND wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking for a parser generator like ANTLR, but generating 
> > ruby code. Is there any?
> 
> There are other Ruby parser generators, but none quite like ANTLR.
> 
> However, it's not extremely difficult to write a backend for ANTLR to
> generate Ruby code; it's just that nobody's done it yet.  ANTLR itself
> is fairly language-neutral.
> 
> The most similar existing Ruby solution is probably Coco/Ruby:
> 
>   http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/CocoR/
> 
> Ryan rocks.
> 
> -mental
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