From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-05-30T17:09:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16022] Re: java based interpreter and regexes

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:16018] Re: java based interpreter and regexes"
    on 01/05/30, "Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair@relian.com> writes:

|I saw a pseudo-BNF for an old version of ruby - can that be generated for
|the newest version?  (to delay the pain of getting into parse.y)

It can be easily generated from parse.y using sample/exyacc.rb.

But yyparse() tightly combined with yylex() via state variables, which
is hardly described by syntax rules only.  That's why I call it kludge.


							matz.