From: cies <cies.breijs@...>
Date: 2006-10-24T20:23:47+09:00
Subject: Parsing ruby-code with the ruby-interpreter itself

at the moment most code editors are using sets of regexps, and other
difficult stuff to do highlighting and syntax error checking...

i was (naturally) thinking: why?

ruby already contains a nice parser for parsing ruby!
would it be possible to build hooks into the ruby-interpreter for code-editors?

i was thinking a small interface exposed by a (both c and ruby)
library, that allows other programs (mainly code editors for as far as
i can imagine) to make use of the relatively fast, and standard
compliant ruby parser that is already in ruby...

searching the net i found nothing that does this. yet i might have
searched in the wrong direction.

well, i'm not a good C coder, i tried to look at ruby's internals to
figure to find out if i could make a patch... but no; i can't, i got
too dizzy ;)

am i suggesting a small layer over the parse.{c,y} and lex.c, or am
suggesting a much bigger project?


thanks for reading all the way up to the end,
cies breijs.


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