From: Charles O Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2006-07-27T23:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: rdoc grows to large size.

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Rockit sounds like a pretty good option, but it requires C code that would
never run under JRuby. That's perhaps not a concern for y'all, but it
doesn't really help us much :)

On 7/26/06, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dave Howell wrote:
> >
> > On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:56, Berger, Daniel wrote:
> >
> >> If only Rockit 0.8.0 were here....
> >>
> >> Robert Feldt, save us from the regular expression horror of rdoc!!!
> >
> > I know this is meant somewhat jokingly, but I got here late, so if you
> > wouldn't mind . . . what do you mean by "the regular expression horror
> > of RDoc?" Is it a reference to extensive use of regular expressions in
> > the code, or something else?
> >
> > And what's Rockit?
> >
> >
> >
> It means that rdoc does parsing with a big ball of regular expression
> goo instead of an actual parser.  It's hard to follow and brittle, imho.
>
> As for Rockit, see http://rubyforge.org/projects/rockit/. There was
> actually a chapter on it in the Developer's Guide that came out a few
> years ago (though it's outdated at this point I think).
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>


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Charles Oliver Nutter @ headius.blogspot.com
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Application Architect @ www.ventera.com

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