From: "Florian Groß" <florgro@...>
Date: 2005-04-24T11:03:22+09:00
Subject: Re: announcing RubyLexer 0.6.0

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vikkous wrote:

>>How extendable is this? Would you be able to add new rules to it
>>add run-time?
> 
> Ummm... if you're really lucky, maybe. I didn't really have
> extensibility in mind.  It might be possible to add it, without a lot
> of trouble, depending on what you want to extend. So, what do you want
> to extend?

One simple example would be adding a ".=" assign-result-of-method-call 
operator as in "foo = 'bar'; foo .= reverse"

> Oh! That would be lovely. Weird syntax, obscure syntax, new syntax,
> twisted, devious, mutant syntax, I want it all for my menagerie.

See attachment.

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