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A Ruby parser.

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-07-08 · latest 2026-04-05

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  1. Even Ruby `parser` gem uses S-expressions in their documentation: https://github.com/whitequark/parser/blob/master/doc/AST_FOR...
    comment by petalmind · 2026-04-05 · in Rubysyn: Clarifying Ruby's Syntax and Semantics
  2. …worked on Rubinius for a while (an implementation of Ruby), and helped out with a parser for Ruby ( https://github.com/whitequark/parser ). The Ruby developers really liked changing their already impossible syntax in even more impossible…
    comment by YorickPeterse · 2023-11-16 · in The Inko Programming Language
  3. Well described. Also I found this on github. https://github.com/whitequark/parser
    comment by progitter · 2023-06-13 · in Rewriting the Ruby parser
  4. …just ported whitequark's parser [1] over to tree-sitter's grammar DSL and scanner API. [1] https://github.com/whitequark/parser
    comment by dcreager · 2021-02-22 · in Tree-sitter: an incremental parsing system for programming tools
  5. …3rd party parser, begrudgingly maintained by someone who (AFAIK) doesn't even write Ruby anymore: https://github.com/whitequark/parser When I see new language features like this, I think of how Ruby's entire tooling ecosystem depends on…
    comment by jbackus · 2020-09-10 · in Ruby adds experimental support for rightward assignments
  6. …itequark.org/blog/2013/04/01/ruby-hacking-guide-ch... It also changes syntax in patch level versions: https://github.com/whitequark/parser .
    comment by hyperpape · 2020-01-31 · in Compiler Construction by Niklaus Wirth [pdf]
  7. …ISO specification ( https://www.iso.org/standard/59579.html ), albeit for 1.9.x syntax (IIRC). [2]: https://github.com/whitequark/parser [3]: Which, notably, just takes Ruby's `rubyNN.y` and exposes the AST as Ruby objects.
    comment by woodruffw · 2017-12-25 · in A criticism of Ruby (2013)
  8. >but Ruby has pretty terrible support for parsing Ruby https://github.com/whitequark/parser Neither unmaintained, broken nor just for old versions. It has some really minor incompatibilities though: https://github.com/whitequark/parser#know…
    comment by cremno · 2015-07-08 · in Ruby Is Defined by Terrible Tools