From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-04-14T02:47:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Using ruby for generic language parsing (or any language-specific parsing libraries out there?)

On Apr 13, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Aaron Patterson wrote:

> I've been using rex and racc for quite a while, and I'm pretty happy
> with both of them.  I've found racc to be quite good in combination  
> with
> existing Yacc grammars.  I've written a pure ruby JavaScript parser[1]
> and CSS parser[2][3] using racc.  I started on a C parser, but  
> decided it wasn't worth my time because I didn't want to deal with  
> preprocessor
> statements and we already have CAST[4].  Other non-trivial racc  
> usage is
> Ryan Davis's ruby parser[5] which is a ruby parser written with racc.

I appreciate all of these great example to look over.

Does anyone know of a good racc tutorial though?  I've seen the very  
basic calculator examples, but I've had trouble finding better  
references.

James Edward Gray II