From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T02:22:12+09:00
Subject: Re: YACC (Was: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541)

On 11/2/05, Daniel Schierbeck <daniel.schierbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Best. Idea. Ever.

I tend to agree, but this begs the question: since this idea is fairly
obvious, and YACC has probably presented problems for quite some time,
why hasn't this been done earlier?

In other words, have other people before hit brick walls when doing
this, and stopped, or is this just a matter of no one making a real
effort in the past?

For what it's worth, the thought of writing a EBNF grammer for Ruby
gives me shivers, but I've never been a big BNF or parser person.

Ryan