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Ruby parse.y

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The `parse.y` file in Ruby's MRI source tree — a Yacc grammar in BNF-like notation that defines Ruby's syntax. Małaszkiewicz inspects it to explain the adjacent-string-literal concatenation feature: the recursive `string : string1 | string string1` rule.

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talk Ruby Rendezvous Method Call, Proc, and Beyond
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Ruby parse.y resource
Inspects parse.y to explain string concatenation grammar.
takeaway Read Ruby source to understand Ruby
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Ruby parse.y resource
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Ruby Rendezvous: Method Call, Proc, and Beyond — Agnieszk... 2026-04-17 22:11
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