[grammarians] Making it happen

MenTaLguY mental at rydia.net
Tue Oct 24 22:32:07 EDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 20:50 -0500, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> - Decide on a standard AST structure to be built out of this? (for 
> example, JRuby's AST is starting to differ from Ruby's, so even if we 
> port ParseTree we'll have compatibility issues...so perhaps we 
> grammarians can also devise a common AST structure that all impls could 
> be confident would work across impls)

That sounds like a reasonable idea.  We will also want that for the
formal specification.  Hopefully official Ruby will not have a
tree-walking interpreter for much longer, and they could theoretically
unify too.

-mental
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