From: Stefan Matthias Aust <sma@3plus4.de>
Date: 2001-05-24T03:11:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15608] Re: Language specification reference

Lothar Scholz <llothar@mailandnews.de> wrote:

>because i want to write a tool for ruby
>i'm looking for a formal and complete language
>reference. Is there something on the net
>(or printed in english and available in a good
>book shop) ?

I'm afraid, the only complete reference for Ruby's grammar is the YACC
input file "parse.y" from the ruby source distribution.  One Ruby
overview document contains a simplified BNF but that's probably not
enough to create a correct Ruby parser.

bye
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Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox