Ara.T.Howard / noaa.gov wrote: > On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Hal Fulton wrote: > >> I was playing with ripper and I found it documented that it >> requires bison (because of %pure_parser and thread safety issues >> which I don't really understand). >> >> I'm wondering: What's involved in getting bison to generate a >> language other than C? Is it just a matter of providing a >> "skeleton" file, or is there much more to it? >> >> Thanks for any clues... >> >> Hal > > > you need a bnf for the language and a scanner to give tokens from that bnf > (yacc). No... I'm talking about the generated language, not the parsed one. ripper takes a Ruby grammar and generates a C parser. I want to take a Ruby grammar and generate a C# parser. Hal