From: hatespyware@... (anon luker)
Date: 2004-03-05T22:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: perl6 grammar rules in ruby

Charles Comstock <cc1@cec.wustl.edu> wrote in message news:<c1vs3p$808$1@newsreader.wustl.edu>...
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> > <snip>
> > i would think that any grammars simple enough to
> > generate parsers for on the fly would be simply 
> > enough to parse by hand.
> > considering that, i perfer the approach of racc 
> > which will generate a static
> > parser using a very ruby-esc syntax.
> > 
> Well take for instance parsing some html

XML is maybe a better example, since you often need to dynamically
build your parser around some external spec (like a dtd).