On Wed, 9 May 2001, Dave Thomas wrote:
> matz / zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto) writes:
> > I personally don't prefer meta approach (a language written by
> > itself).  But I'd like to try top-down parser (in C), if I had
> > enough knowledge about writing parser.
> I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but just curious. What would be wrong
> with a reference implementation of the Ruby parser in Ruby? Assuming
> it would be simpler to work with, it would give us a platform from
> which to experiment with various language options. It would also be
> invaluable to writers of tools such as rubydoc. Of course we'd end up
> maintaining two parsers,




Dave, here, you really, really understand what I want.




Note that it could also give us perfect syntax highlighting instead of
just approximations.

matju