From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-04-23T18:11:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Did using Yacc in the Ruby parser require a lot of messy hacking?


On Apr 22, 2008, at 13:25 , Robert wrote:

> I'm assuming that the grammar of Ruby does not follow the LALR grammar
> rules that Yacc assumes? Can anyone give a plain english definition of
> what LALR actually means? Or context free?

LALR and context free can be found in fundamental CS literature or on  
wikipedia.

> Or does the grammar of Ruby fit quite nicely with the Lex/Yacc  
> toolset?

I'm not sure what you mean by "fit". It works with Lex/Yacc (bison  
actually) and my ruby_parser project works with racc... but I dunno  
about "fit". Probably "no" if I had to guess your intent.