Lua is not skin deep
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- Subject: Lua is not skin deep
- From: "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: 2007年10月30日 14:54:42 +0200
Consider this:
def test()
{
a = 10
if (a > 4) {
print 'was larger'
if (a > 6) {
print 'larger than 6'
if (a > 10) {
print 'bonanza'
} else if (a > 8) {
print 'payola'
} else {
print 'bonus'
}
}
}
}
After mucking around with a token filter for a few hours, I got this
to compile correctly. It 'looks' like a bastardized JavaScript, but it
actually is Lua. The semantics are the same, and the transformation
was fairly simple (110 lines of Lua).
On the other hand, Java and C++ are very different animals, even
though they can look very similar.
Maybe it would be productive to think of programming languages as 'skinnable'?
steve d.