On 11/16/07, Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby / zenspider.com> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 07:27 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > > > Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > >> What's your goal with this? At the moment, I don't like that > >> there's only two "mostly correct" parsers in existence: Ruby's > >> Bison-based parser and JRuby's Jay-based parser. They're both > >> pretty painful to work with and evolve. > > > > Isn't there also an ANTLR parser? What about Nathan Sobo's "Treetop"? > > there is no complete ruby parser based on antlr yet that I know of. > > treetop is not a ruby parser, it is a ruby parser generator (like > antlr). I just took a look at treetop as I hadn't heard of it before - I just watched the screencast and all I can say is Wow, just Wow! Take a look if you haven't: http://www.pivotalblabs.com/articles/2007/09/15/treetop-1-0-1