From: Edgardo Hames <ehames@...>
Date: 2005-01-27T04:40:34+09:00
Subject: Re: When little languages grow...

On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:31:05 +0900, Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng
<hgs@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Trans wrote:
> 
> > Hi Hugh,
> >
> > What are you trying to parse exactly? Is it full Ruby source or a small
> > subset?
> 
> Not full ruby source, just a mini-language, maybe using Ruby's
> parser instead of botching(!) my own...
> >

Is the "mini-language" given or you can build your own "mini-language"?
If you can write your own language, then you should consider writing a
DSL suitable for your problem a la Rails, and then, let the Ruby
interpreter do the whole job.

Kind Regards,
Ed
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