From: Tanner Burson Date: 2005-11-03T02:30:57+09:00 Subject: Re: YACC (Was: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541) ------=_Part_6263_22577931.1130952654070 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On 11/2/05, Ryan Leavengood wrote: > > On 11/2/05, Daniel Schierbeck 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. I think your last comment sums up most people. There are very few people willing to do the mass amount of work that translating the Ruby grammer would take. And to make it worse of those willing thare are probably far fewer with the time and/or skill. While I sincerely hope someone takes it upon themself to do this, I don't hold out a lot of hope for anything to be done soon simply because of the scale of what's required. Ryan > > -- =3D=3D=3DTanner Burson=3D=3D=3D tanner.burson@gmail.com http://tannerburson.com <---Might even work one day... ------=_Part_6263_22577931.1130952654070--