From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-11-03T11:26:49+09:00
Subject: Re: YACC (Was: Re: ruby-dev summary 27393-27541)


>
>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
>  
>
RubyQuiz idea, translate the grammar for a portion of Ruby (I don't 
know, somthing like class methods etc avoid eval and blocks forr now) 
and write a simple parser that will take a ruby class and output EBNF for it

Thoughts

Kev