Re: [Cardinal-dev] There Is No Wheel

[Sean Chittenden]

> > At this point I'm thinking that Ruth probably offers the best near-term
> > solution.  Since it essentially uses Matz's parse.y it's compliant.
> > We can get an AST out of it.  From the AST we can produce PIR which can be
> > fed into imcc (at least that's how I understand that it should be done).
> 
> The announcement of the current version
> (http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/33555)
> describes the parser as "painfully incomplete".
> 
> Does _ANYONE_ (besides Matz in the ruby source) have a parser that can
> reliably take ruby code and return an AST?  I don't want to reinvent the
> wheel, but it's starting to look like there is no wheel.

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/files/nodeDump-0.1.7.tgz

-sc

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Sean Chittenden