From: Lothar Scholz <llothar@...>
Date: 2001-05-24T23:41:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:15667] Re: Language specification reference

On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:49:07 +0200, Stefan Matthias Aust
<sma@3plus4.de> wrote:

>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.
>

Thanks, grammer is an imporant part but whats about
a precise definition about the semantik. I will write my Ruby
parser/tokenizer in Eiffel if i'm able to understand the parse.y file.