From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T05:05:41+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661

Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661"
>     on Fri, 5 Aug 2005 01:14:46 +0900, Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com> writes:
>
> |I have no clue about the Bison grammar underlying Ruby, but can't you
> |"simply" say that if the first token after { is a |, you need to parse
> |until the next | to get the block parameters?
>
> It would be great if it's possible.  But unfortunately I don't have
> enough skills to accomplish this using yacc/bison.

Neither do I...

> |Of course, you couldn't write { |x = 5|7 | true } then... *I* can live
> |with that.
>
> You can always use {|x=(5|7)| true }.

Good point.

> matz.
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