[grammarians] Visualization of Ruby's grammar

[Charles Oliver Nutter]

Nick Sieger wrote:
> Thought you guys might find this interesting.  I took parse.y and 
> generated a dependency graph of it using ANTLRWorks.  (Note that I 
> didn't use Rubyfront's or Sara's ANTLR grammar, that could be something 
> to do next).
> 
> http://blog.nicksieger.com/articles/2006/10/27/visualization-of-rubys-grammar
> 
> Any keen observations?  Next steps?

So how far off from a usable grammar is what you fed to ANTLRWorks? Is 
this mostly a neat way to visualize the YACC grammar, or is this 
something usable? Anything that can reliably take the YACC grammar, 
massage it a bit, and produce a new ANLTR grammar out of that could be 
pretty useful.

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