From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-12-05T06:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby language parser in ruby

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> This particular
> example fixes up the precedence of expressions like -2**10. '-2' is
> normally lexed as one single numeric token, as is normal in most
> languages. In this one special case, however, the -@ must actually be
> made lower precedence than **

Ugh. No doubt that sort of thing will bite me.

> I'd still like to hear more about this language(s) you're trying to
> make, if you want to tell.

I'm going to try to implement a 'ruby flavoured erlang', a front-end 
which spits out regular erlang which is compiled in the normal way, to 
see what such a language might look like.
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