From: MikkelFJ <mikkelfj-anti-spam@...>
Date: 2002-09-29T06:29:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Is Ruby's grammar LL(k)?


"Mark Probert" <probertm@nortelnetworks.com> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20020928094656.00b0fe90@zcard04k.ca.nortel.com...

>          parseLine unless /^$/ # Don't parse empty lines end
This is a real problem in Ruby parsing I guess:

You can easily handle many of Rubys linebreak rules if you include linebreak
as a token, but if you do that, you will have to deal with them a lot of
places where you would rather ignore them as whitespace. I think this can be
handled by having the parser cooperating with the lexer. Obviously it is
doable since Ruby parsers exist.

Mikkel