From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2005-02-03T18:18:38+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: ParseTree 1.3.3 and ruby2c 1.0.0 beta 1


On Feb 2, 2005, at 6:40 AM, Kent Sibilev wrote:

> AFAIK, rrb project which adds some refactoring capabilities to emacs 
> uses similar to ParseTree library called ripper. BTW, ripper is now 
> part of Ruby 1.9.

Whoa. You give ParseTree a lot more credit than it deserves. Ripper is 
big, and it is doing real work to do what it does. ParseTree is a 
little brown stinky ferret that digs down a hole and violently rips the 
AST away from the warm bosom of ruby. In other words, we cheat, they 
don't.

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