From: Stephen White <spwhite@...>
Date: 2001-07-30T12:57:24+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18780] Re: Ruby as opposed to Python?

On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> BTW my work on RubyAST is halted until i have a ruby-in-ruby parser I can
> play with. The issue is that although I want RubyAST to be more central
> than a parser, i can't actually tune it to be easy to use until I have a
> parser to play with :-(

I ran into a similar bottleneck while looking at writing a code editor.

It would be nice if the Ruby parser exposed an API, even if the internals
are going to change dramatically with the switch to byte-code.

It'd be good even if it just said "this is a variable, this is a function,
this is a parameter, this is an expression" - not much more than lexing,
but with guaranteed accuracy.

One day. :)

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