[grammarians] shortcut to self.class ?

[Terence Parr]

On Dec 20, 2005, at 2:28 PM, mental at rydia.net wrote:

> Quoting Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>:
>
>> 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. :(
>
> I think what I'm going to do at this point is go ahead and start on
> that v2 grammar for a Ruby subset, just so we keep our forward
> momentum.  We'll migrate to v3 when that's a little more baked.

Kewl.

> As far as Ruby goes, I'm definitely going to need your help for the
> weird stuff (e.g. heredocs), but most of the edge cases are just
> edge cases and I think I can deal with those.

No worries.  I think that we should consider a stream object that  
processes all random delimiters into a standard one and then the  
lexer has it easy. :)

Ter