Re: [Cardinal-dev] Ping?!

[Dan Sugalski]

At 12:24 PM +0200 11/13/02, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> On 12.11 16:12, Erik Bågfors wrote:
> >  Should we get this thing started??  Could people please say if they are
> >  interested in helping and what they want to do?
>
> I could work on either on the compiler implementation, or implementing
> Ruby standard library on top of parrot.
>
> I have some experience doing stuff like this, and have written few compilers
> and VMs. However I don't currently have the time to start designing things.
> I'd love to use a parser understanding EBNF as a basis instead of the
> parsers currently available wich interact directly with bison/yacc.

You might want to take a look at the yacc parser in the parrot tree
now. Granted it's in perl, and we won't go into arguments about that
now, but it does produce a parser for ruby, and might be a good place
to start.
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