From: Ian Hobson Date: 2005-11-12T19:25:06+09:00 Subject: Re: RUBY GRAMMAR In message <20051110210653.GA9265@puritan.petwork>, Nikolai Weibull writes >Finally, people should certainly be able to ask questions and certainly >on things relating to their homework. However, asking questions like >“can you take my partial solution and rewrite/finish it so that it >works” isn’t what I would call a valid question. An honest >question like “I have this homework exercise that requires me to >write a grammar for a small subset of Ruby and I was wondering if >anyone has a suggestion on how to parse parameter lists. I have this >partial solution that seems to be able to handle the simple cases but >am having trouble with the more esoteric ones. Here’s what I’ve >got and a beginning on the rest. Anyone have any suggestions? I’ve >tried the following things, but it fails for this and this, and I >don’t quite understand why.” I’d consider answering such a >question, provided I had something to contribute. I would agree, but..... EVERY time I have tried this, the question has got exactly the same answer. Nothing. I have found asking in a public forum to be a very tricky thing. And my Mother tongue is English, not Italian like the OP. YMMV :) Regards Ian -- Ian - posting to a Newsgroup. Please remove everything to reply.