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There is a JavaScript grammar for OMeta
(http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~awarth/ometa/), which is also based on PEGs,
it may be a start.

--
Fabio Mascarenhas

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Duck <duck@roaming.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>  I suppose I mean "a grammar for the language specified in
>  ECMA-262 ECMAScript Language Specification 3rd edition" :-)
>
>  A big ask, I know, but...does LPEG code for this exist? If not, does
>  anyone have a PEG grammar in some textual form which might be converted
>  fairly simply into an LPEG-based equivalent?
>
>  (My first thought was "just convert the grammar in the ECMA-262 document
>  into LPEG form -- after all, it's only programming", but that was before I
>  downloaded the 188-page beast of a specification! Compare that to the 95
>  less-densely-packed and readable pages of the entire Lua 5.1 _Reference_
>  Manual. What a sheltered world a Luaphile enjoys :- )
>