From: ptkwt@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2006-02-19T04:38:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: [grammarians] First release of Rubyfront

In article <200602181546.30323.david@vallner.net>,
David Vallner  <david@vallner.net> wrote:
>D=C5=88a Sobota 18 Febru=C3=A1r 2006 07:28 Phil Tomson nap=C3=ADsal:
>> This seems applicable to JRuby (since it's in ANTLR which is in Java).
>>
>
>Not necessarily, it should be useful for all sorts of toolchains - it's jus=
>t=20
>not possible to invoke it from a Ruby app. It might also be interesting to=
>=20
>port this to pure Ruby once the ANTLR Ruby backend matures. (Correct me if=
>=20
>already did since I last checked.) Having a proper Ruby parser in Ruby migh=
>t=20
>make writing tools like RDoc much easier.
>

Quite true.  It's been our 'holy grail' for several years now.  I was not aware 
taht ANTLR could generate a pure Ruby parser.

....of course there is Ripper (not sure what the current status is) and other 
similar projects like ParseTree, nodeTree, etc.

Phil