On Mon, 02 Apr 2001  21:13:10 +0900, Christophe Broult wrote:
> 
> I was also thinking that it would be nice to use Antlr to generate parsers
> in Ruby and after that being able to kind of "bootstrap" Ruby with Ruby.

Crossed my mind too, but after close examination of the ANTLR
{Cpp,Java,Sather}CodeGenerator classes I figured that to be a somewhat
largish and rather complex job, and quickly forgot about it...

The Sather support might give a good indication of the amount of
code needed:
	SatherCodeGenerator.java ~ 100k
	support code in Sather   ~  80k

I agree though that it would be insanely great to be able to generate
predicated LL(k) parsers in pure Ruby.

	Michel