On Wed, 30 May 2001 16:40:06 +0900
"Wayne Blair" <wayne.blair / relian.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have any experience with javacc?  I've been playing with it
> and
> it doesn't seem _too_ brutal.  Anyway, if you do:
> 
> It comes with a utility that produces a BNF from a .jj file, wonder if a
> .jj
> file husk can be produced from a BNF?
> 
> I saw a pseudo-BNF for an old version of ruby - can that be generated
> for
> the newest version?  (to delay the pain of getting into parse.y)
> 
> Any comments on using it and jjtree for java ruby?

When I was looking at Java parser generators recently, I found sablecc
much more palatable; if you haven't already, I'd advise taking a look at
it as well.