We on the JRuby project have recently become interested in helping make progress on an antlr-based grammar. For our purposes, the current YACC grammar works well enough, but it's fragile and a poor choice for any application that wants more than a straight-through parse (JIT compilation, IDEs and editors, code analysis tools). I'm curious about a few things:
- What's the state of the RubyGrammar project? How much code can it parse today? (especially in light of the recent contributions) - How does it compare to the RubyFront grammar? I'm no grammarian, but at a glance that one appeared to be more complete, and was able to parse the entire stdlib (though I have no idea about accuracy). - Is this project still being actively worked? If I have grammarians interested in helping, should I point them at rubygrammar or rubyfront? (I know of a few such folks inside and outside of Sun standing by) -- Charles Oliver Nutter, JRuby Core Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogging at headius.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Rubygrammar-grammarians mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygrammar-grammarians
