From: Bil Kleb <W.L.Kleb@...>
Date: 2002-02-08T07:24:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding rockit power to Rdoc?

Dave Thomas wrote:
> 
> I think that would be great. And if you can make it handle Ruby using
> RockIT, and if I can still bundle everything into a single
> download,and if the performance is reasonable, I'd be very, very happy
> to throw away the current parser.

You think even grander than I do! ;)

I was merely(!?) thinking that one would still be required to build
an adaptor to go from the abstract syntax tree to a code model, but
then again I don't really know what I'm talking about...  Robert?

On a recursive note: Rdoc wasn't able to rdoc rockit:

    lib/sourcecode_dumpable.rb: m........cm#<RubyToken::TkCOMMA:0x40496aa8 @text=",", @char_no=61, @line_no=74>
Exception `NameError' at /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1630 - undefined method `name' for #<RubyToken::TkCOMMA:0x40496aa8>
/usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1630:in `parse_module': undefined method `name' for #<RubyToken::TkCOMMA:0x40496aa8> (NameError)
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1498:in `parse_statements'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1634:in `parse_module'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1498:in `parse_statements'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1339:in `scan'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1338:in `catch'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/rdoc/parse.rb:1338:in `scan'
        from /usr/local/bin/rdoc:358:in `document'
        from /usr/local/bin/rdoc:344:in `find'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/1.6/find.rb:14:in `catch'
        from /usr/local/pkgs/ruby-1.6.5/lib/ruby/1.6/find.rb:14:in `find'
        from /usr/local/bin/rdoc:344:in `document'
        from /usr/local/bin/rdoc:406
--
Bil