Lothar Scholz <llothar / mailandnews.de> wrote: >because i want to write a tool for ruby >i'm looking for a formal and complete language >reference. Is there something on the net >(or printed in english and available in a good >book shop) ? I'm afraid, the only complete reference for Ruby's grammar is the YACC input file "parse.y" from the ruby source distribution. One Ruby overview document contains a simplified BNF but that's probably not enough to create a correct Ruby parser. bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust \/ Truth Until Paradox