Re: patch: C-style string lexing
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- Subject: Re: patch: C-style string lexing
- From: Mildred <ml.mildred593@...>
- Date: 2008年1月31日 19:00:45 +0100
Le Wed 30/01/2008 à 17:06 Eric Tetz à écrit:
> I just posted a small patch to the wiki that allows C-style string
> lexing, where string literals separated by whitespace are collected
> as a single string. I've always appreciated that in C, and miss it
> when using languages that don't lex strings that way (lika Java or
> Lua).
There is another way you can do it ... That can be found in the Lisaac
language (pretty unknown at the moment, but I like it much).
You can define an escape sequence that could be written \%s+\ and that
does nothing. For instance your example could be written:
if something then
for k,v in pairs(foo) do
if v then
bar()
else
io.write "This is a big chunk of text \
\that for whatever reason (typically \
\readability) is broken into multiple \
\lines in the source code.\n"
end
end
And this does not create ambiguity with the call syntax.
Mildred
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