Nope, it's still incredibly awful. Most of those thousands of lines aren't actually the grammer but the hand-written, full of exceptions, lexer. It has, if anyt

Nope, it's still incredibly awful. Most of those thousands of lines aren't actually the grammer but the hand-written, full of exceptions, lexer. It has, if anything, gotten even worse thanks to allowing method selectors (the '.') to be placed on the next line, and the (key: value) syntax for hash args. And all working active ports of Ruby use either the MRI lexer/parser verbatim or a mostly direct port of it. The JRuby port has the good graces to at least break the thousands of lines of lexing out into a few basic functions based on the first char of the token rather than leaving it in a giant switch statement, though.