From: Rutger Nijlunsing <ruby-lang@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T04:58:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Looking for a parser generator

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:50:11AM +0900, Edgardo Hames wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for a nice parser generator which given an EBNF grammar
> can build an AST and Rockit seems a very good option. However, I keep
> getting errors when trying to run the examples on Ruby 1.8. I've also
> seen some other people complaining on the list because they run into
> similar problems. Is this project dead? What other options can I
> choose from?

racc: nice and simple, runtime included in default Ruby distribution
(...though not the generator itself).

http://i.loveruby.net/en/man/racc/grammar.html appears to have a
tutorial.

Download http://www.wingding.demon.nl/ -> Rpay2 for an example for
actual usage.

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