From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2011-03-09T20:06:51+09:00
Subject: [ANN] parslet 1.2 - a PEG parser library

parslet is a Parsing Expression Grammar based[1] parser generator 
library. Uff. Now that is out of our system, here goes what it really 
does: It makes writing parsers pleasant for the rest of us. No code 
generation, clear access to data, unit testable.

* http://kschiess.github.com/parslet/index.html
* https://github.com/kschiess/parslet

Installation:

gem install parslet

Changes:

* All parsers are now parser atoms as well. Not only can you freely
   combine atoms, you can mix in parsers! Example:

     str('ip:') >> IpParser.new >> str(';')

* Parslet now returns slices instead of strings. Slices are strings
   that retain original source offsets and are printed as "string"@0.
   This allows line and column information to be accessed in later
   stages: See Parslet::Slice for details.

* #prsnt? and #absnt? are now deprecated. Please use only #present? and
   #absent

Synopsis:

   require 'parslet'
   class Mini < Parslet::Parser
     rule(:integer) { match('[0-9]').repeat(1) }
     root(:integer)
   end

   Mini.new.parse("132432") # => "132432"@0

Go wild. Write that compiler!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar