From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-08-05T10:33:35+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 26468-26661


On Aug 4, 2005, at 9:23 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> 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.
>
> |Of course, you couldn't write { |x = 5|7 | true } then... *I* can  
> live
> |with that.
>
> You can always use {|x=(5|7)| true }.
>
>                             matz.
>
>
I think this looks the best to me.
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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