From: Anthony Eden <anthonyeden@...>
Date: 2007-06-15T21:25:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Dhaka-2.2.1

Mushfeq,

I just wanted to take the opportunity to say that Dhaka is very nicely
done. I've been using it lately for creating an MDX lexer/parser and
have even played around with notion of parsing SQL. It's good stuff,
so thanks. :-)

V/r
Anthony Eden

On 6/15/07, Mushfeq Khan <mushfeq.khan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dhaka is a parser- and lexer-generator. Ruby is both the source and target
> language.
>
> ==What's new==
>
> This release addresses some problems that people have been experiencing due
> to the library having a large memory footprint. The new require target
> 'dhaka/runtime' loads only the barest minimum that's required to run
> compiled lexers and parsers in production. Its memory usage is an order of
> magnitude smaller.
>
> When developing grammars and lexer specifications, you should continue to
> require 'dhaka' as before. In production code, require 'dhaka/runtime'.
>
> Also included is a patch from Rick Olson for adding a default handling rule
> to tokenizer states (See TokenizerState#for_default).
>
> http://dhaka.rubyforge.org
>
> Mushfeq.
>


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