On Sat, 19 May 2001, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "M" == Mathieu Bouchard <matju / sympatico.ca> writes:
> M> 	A. Keep the "Ruby Parser in Ruby" as a reference implementation
>  Well, it exist a reference implementation for ruby, see parse.y
>  :-((((((

I did say "a" reference implementation, and you did say so too. The C/YACC
version would be the reference impl for the Ruby version, and the Ruby
version would be the reference impl for the Java version. This kind of
proxying of the knowledge of the Ruby syntax is very useful to those who
don't fully understand the intricacies of C/YACC, or of the parser based
on C/YACC; furthermore it can be very useful even to those who fully
understand the intricacies thereof -- whoever those are.

All this to say I don't know why you are so annoyed by the idea. 

matju