[grammarians] [Rubygrammar-grammarians] Ruby Grammar Project

[MenTaLguY]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 22:21 +0100, Mauricio Fernández wrote:

> So I was going to ask... what's the official goal of this project?
> Replacing the current YACC parser + handmade lexer (seems so based on
> the initial msgs about comparing the produced ASTs with the canonical
> ones) or creating the basis for refactoring etc. tools? Or will there
> be two sets of actions to produce two different ASTs?

Well, for the short-term I just care about getting a grammar that
matches any valid Ruby program.

The nice thing about ANTLR is that we can probably get from there to a
Ruby-style AST via a tree transformer rather than writing a completely
new grammar.

-mental
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