From: Phlip <phlip2005@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T16:48:36+09:00
Subject: Re: State of the Onion

David Masover wrote:

> Phlip wrote:
> 
>> Now excuse me while I get back to extending Ruby in application-specific 
> ways...
> 
> Ruby is, indeed, the best way to do that now. And Perl6 has been coming for, 
> what, eight years? I'm not holding my breath...
> 
> That said, if I understand this, it would involve actual changes to the 
> parser. Can't really do that in Ruby -- or at least, not without recompiling 
> Ruby.
> 
> Has anyone actually done the equivalent of Acme::Lingua::Pirate::Perl for 
> Ruby? If so, how much work was it? How hackish was it?

The joke: Flaming O'Reilly for letting anyone into the clich...

...then following up with my sig, with a link to _my_ membership in the O'Reilly 
frat...

...describing a module I wrote in Ruby that gets inside the parser and extends it:

   http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/02/assert2.html

No, I don't expect O'Reilly to go out and build conferences to revolve around 
me. Maybe if I filled my source up with gratuitously self-serving Tolkien quotes...

-- 
   Phlip