From: Jason DiCioccio <geniusj@...>
Date: 2001-08-29T13:52:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20498] Re: YACC & lex and Ruby


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This might be slightly off topic, but the conversation has sparked an inter=
est
in me once again..  Can anyone recommend a good book on yacc/lex?  Or even a
brief description to start?

Regards,
-JD-

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:35:03AM +0900, markus liedl wrote:
> Dat Nguyen wrote:
> >=20
> > Is there anything you can do with YACC & lex but can't with Ruby?
>=20
> probably you mean Ruby + racc
>=20
> I started translating parse.y to a racc format to build a RubyInRuby
> parser.
>=20
> The only annoying issue was how to get the stack with the still
> successfully parsed states out of it if an syntax error happens.
>=20
> But, can you do that with yacc?
>=20
> markus
>=20

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