[grammarians] shortcut to self.class ?

Terence Parr parrt at cs.usfca.edu
Tue Dec 20 16:07:06 EST 2005


On Dec 19, 2005, at 12:21 PM, mental at rydia.net wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck at gmail.com>:
>
>>>>   class.some_method  # legal
>>>>   class              # illegal, or rather, creates a new class
>>>
>>> +1, but I wonder if this may be a limitation of the parser
>>
>> Probably. I'm getting a bit fed up with the current parser, it
>> seems to kill off a lot of good ideas. What's the status on that
>> new ANTLR grammar?
>
> Ter's still learning Ruby and I'm still learning ANTLR.

Yeah, it may be awhile before I have enough time to learn ruby  
sufficiently to parse it.  It's a very complicated language when you  
peer into the edge cases. Makes python look simple. :(

Ter


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