From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-12-21T07:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [grammarians] shortcut to self.class ?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mental@rydia.net [mailto:mental@rydia.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 3:29 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML; parrt@cs.usfca.edu
> Cc: Grammarians; ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: [grammarians] shortcut to self.class ?
> 
> 
> Quoting Terence Parr <parrt@cs.usfca.edu>:
> 
> > Yeah, it may be awhile before I have enough time to learn ruby 
> > sufficiently to parse it.  It's a very complicated language 
> when you 
> > peer into the edge cases. Makes python look simple. :(
> 
> I think what I'm going to do at this point is go ahead and 
> start on that v2 grammar for a Ruby subset, just so we keep 
> our forward momentum.  We'll migrate to v3 when that's a 
> little more baked.
> 
> As far as Ruby goes, I'm definitely going to need your help 
> for the weird stuff (e.g. heredocs), but most of the edge 
> cases are just edge cases and I think I can deal with those.
> 
> -mental

Then ditch heredocs.  I can't think of a case where I desperately needed
a heredoc over, say, %q{}.

- Dan