From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-08-15T00:19:02+09:00
Subject: Re: AW: [ann] AEditor 0.10, folding added

Go study the parse.y file in the Ruby distribution.  The lexer is hand 
written, and the parser is tightly bound to the Ruby runtime. If after 
study, however, you think you could generate a precise BNF grammar from 
it...please do...but I don't think its that easy ;-)

-rich

On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 07:36  AM, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> Right. Stealing it from the ruby source code does not take a long time.
> The biggest problem is that no one seems to be interested in
> maintaining a precise BNF grammer of the language. With the grammer 
> and bison
> it shouldn't take longer then a day.