[rspec-users] Step matchers

[Jay Levitt]

On 10/15/2007 10:11 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
> El 15/10/2007, a las 14:21, "Pat Maddox" <pergesu at gmail.com> escribió:
>> Jay mentioned antlr.  This parser is so simple though that I doubt we
>> would need/want that.  There's not really any parsing at all in fact.
>> You just look at each line, figure out what token it is, and pass the
>> following string to a constructor.  It should be like 60 lines of Ruby
>> code, and we don't have any external dependencies.
> 
> I've done a couple of month's work with ANTLR (3.0) this year and  
> based on my experiences I'd say it's not the right tool for this kind  
> of job. You use ANTLR if:

Yeah, I think you're right.  I'd used ANTLR about eight years ago and 
got the impression from casual browsing that 3.0 not only solved all 
those problems, but was moving toward a ruby-hosted toolchain.   Guess not.

Plus, I've never written a "real" parser, so I always try to find ways 
to avoid doing so :)

Jay