From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T09:54:33+09:00
Subject: Re: announcing RubyLexer 0.6.0

vikkous ha scritto:
> At this time, I am pleased to announce the release of RubyLexer 0.6.0,
> a standalone lexer of ruby in ruby. RubyLexer attempts to completely
> and correctly tokenize all valid ruby 1.8 source code, and it mostly
> succeeds. In time, RubyLexer will be able to lex all ruby code. For
> now, some newer features are unsupported and there are some extremely
> obscure bugs involving strings, but all real world ruby code should be
> supported. It is my hope to provide a high-quality lexer for all those
> language tools which require one.
> 
> RubyLexer is hosted on RubyForge
> (http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubylexer/).
> Here's where to get the tarball:
> http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/4191/rubylexer-0.6.0.tar.bz2
> 

first let me say I think this is cool :)
Anyway, I wonder: isn't something like this included with ruby (irb's 
lexer) ?
Care to explain the differences a little?