Re: [Cardinal-dev] There Is No Wheel

[Sean Chittenden]

> [snip]
> > > http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/ruby/downloads/files/nodeDump-0.1.7.tgz
> >
> > nodeDump prints out a representation of the internal parsetree for a Ruby
> > program, but as far as I can tell, it doesn't return an AST that can be
> > walked from within Ruby.
> 
> I didn't like ruth's inspect method much for showing a tree, but I played
> around with adding a 'show' method to TreeNode, and formatting things a bit
> nicer.  The ruth parser is the best so far; the parrot/languages/ruby one
> choked on '$0', for example (yep, I wrote a ruby script that parsed itself).

While the grammar may be slightly older, have you tried using ripper?
If so, I'm curious as to your reactions/thoughts.  -sc

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Sean Chittenden