From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-07-27T03:11:22+09:00
Subject: Re: General delimiters

On 7/25/10, Иван Сташко <johns@appliedfilter.com> wrote:
> ---------  Question
>
> I think code would be more readable if I could type,
>
>          a = %e "This 73 brqx"

I have in the past created preprocessors to achieve this type of
effect, based on my library RubyLexer. RubyLexer turns ruby source
into a stream of tokens, which can then be converted back to the same
source code. It can fairly easily be extended to recognize new token
types. And it's all written in ruby, so understanding and modifying
the MRI lexer c code is not necessary. I believe this would be much
easier to do than hacking on MRI c code, but it is nowhere near as
easy as redefining operators is. There is some knowledge of RubyLexer
internals required, tho, and I can help you with this if you'd like to
try.