From: Mark <msparshatt@...>
Date: 2004-02-21T02:54:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby to Parrot compiler

Chad Fowler wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Mark wrote:
>
># 
># Cardinal was set up on Savannah but this seems to be a perfect project 
># to start up on Rubyforge.
># 
>
>Also on RubyForge is Ripper (http://rubyforge.org/projects/ripper/), which 
>would probably make a good choice for the parser for this compiler.  
>Ripper is in need of development help.  Minero Aoki is reportedly very 
>busy these days with other projects and has moved the project to RubyForge 
>in an effort to get more people engaged.
>
>
>  
>
Thanks for the suggestion. I've downloaded the tarball of the cvs files 
and started experimenting with it.

 From what I've seen it does seem to be close to what we need. Once it's 
finished it seems that in order to build a compiler all you'd have to do 
is subclass the Ripper class and add in callbacks that output the 
correct code.

I'll try to help with Ripper thoughmy C skills are rather rusty so I'm 
not sure how much I'll be able to help.

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Mark Sparshatt