From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-25T10:52:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23250] Re: [ANN] RubyInRubyParser 0.1-pre-alpha

In article <17736.1003973776@www56.gmx.net>,
markus liedl  <markus.lado@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>Hello MetaRuby-Folk,
>
>I would like to release a pre-alpha version of my RubyInRubyParser. It's a
>direct translation of matz' one into Ruby code. It's already quite complete,
>but still missing are:
>
>  lots of type-checking for the produced AST ( try 'self = myself' )
>
>  definition of singleton methods
>
>  strings, re, %q %Q %w %r
>
>  flipflop
>
>  BEGIN/END-block
>
>  reverse rescue
>
>  proc
>
>
>find it at the cvs-repository
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubyvm/
>
>
>
>
>--------------------------------------- README:
>
>
>RubyInRubyParser 0.1-pre-alpha.
>
>
>
>If you are not interested in building a VM for Ruby or Syntax
>highlighting for your favourite Editor, then - probably - this is not
>especially interesting for you.


Is the intent for this to eventually lead to a Ruby VM written in Ruby?


I just downloaded Squeak (www.squeak.org) this afternoon and played with 
it for a while, it's quite cool that the squeak VM is written in squeak.
The whole squeak system is pretty cool, but I don't know Smalltalk.

Phil