Re: [FR-devel] RE: bRuby? (Yet another Ruby parser)

[Hal E. Fulton]

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From: "Rich Kilmer" <address@hidden>
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Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 10:10 PM
Subject: RE: [FR-devel] RE: bRuby? (Yet another Ruby parser)



> Just a point of note.  The Ripper parser takes .05 seconds to parse a 2k
> line file.  That's darned fast.  Not that I want it parsing continually,
> but maybe on carriage return and/or moving off a modified line with the
> arrow keys.
> 
> Optimizations would be nice, but only if necessary.

An excellent point.

I guess one thing I'm thinking is that we could possibly
use the parser for colorizing and indentation as well.
An 'ad hoc' approach doesn't always work optimally.

But I agree: No unnecessary complexity.

Hal