From: Eric Hodel Date: 2009-06-10T03:54:31+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] rkelly 1.0.1 Released On Jun 9, 2009, at 10:27, Tony Arcieri wrote: >> The RKelly library will parse JavaScript and return a parse tree. > > Hey, this is an awesome library, but there's one thing I should > point out > about your description on Rubyforge: > >> This library will parse Javascript and turn it into Ruby. The ruby >> generated >> should be functionally equivalent to the Javascript. > > At the time I was looking for a JavaScript-to-JavaScript compiler to > do some > code futzing. When I found RKelly, I was like "hey great, a Racc > grammar > for JavaScript!" However I was too lazy to check the README and > started > trying to pull the grammar/parser into my project first before > discovering > that it was a fully fledged JavaScript-to-JavaScript compiler. > > You might want to note that it also outputs JavaScript on the > Rubyforge > description. I think you missed the first line: >> I have no idea how this happened, but I'm sure that someone pulling >> out a >> Beretta was involved. Judging from this sentence, I bet Aaron wouldn't mind someone taking over rkelly.