Marcus

is the parseMethod: or equivalent now in the Smacc package?
Because it seems useful.

Stef
> the SmaCCParser superclass provides the method  
> #parseStream:startingAt:
>
> First parameter is the stream to parse, second the starting state  
> of the parser. SmaCC
> generates accessors for the possible starting states automatically  
> (see method category
> 'generate starting states')
>
> For the SqueakParser (part of NewCompiler), this method was  
> implemented to make it
> easy to use from other code:
>
> parseMethod: stringOrStream
>
> 	^ (self
> 		parseStream: stringOrStream readStream
> 		startingAt: self startingStateForMethod)
> 		source: stringOrStream contents
>
> Thus,
>
>  SqueakParser parseMethod: 'hello ^1'
>
> will give you an RB AST.
>
> For experiments, do not use the STParser. It's kind of broken *and*  
> it just
> generates a parse tree, which is not what's needed in most cases. The
> SqueakParser (part of NewCompiler) can actually parse the whole image
> *and* it directly generates an RB AST.
>
>     Marcus
>
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