From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-07-31T02:31:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in Ruby

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby in Ruby"
    on 03/07/30, Mauricio Fern�ndez <batsman.geo@yahoo.com> writes:

|AFAIK the only full specification of the syntax is parse.y (and perhaps
|some Japanese book too? I read somewhere that Ruby in a nutshell didn't
|have a proper syntax spec)

My first book contains pseudo BNF syntax of Ruby as of 1.4.0, but it's
far from perfect. Besides Ruby syntax cannot be described in simple
BNF.  You can extract rules from parse.y by using exyacc.rb in the
sample directory.

							matz.