Re: Lua plans to add meta-programming support?
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- Subject: Re: Lua plans to add meta-programming support?
- From: Xavier Wang <weasley.wx@...>
- Date: 2012年3月11日 02:03:23 +0800
2012年3月10日 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> There are limitations - this is smart substitution but it is still on
> the lexical level. I cannot implement the most commonly suggested |x|
> 2*x syntax for short lambdas because it's hard to know where the
> expression ends without parsing it. Some of the freedom of
> token-filtering is also lost, so I can't show you a filter that
> replaces newlines in tables with commas (I'm thinking of an elegant
> yet efficient way of doing this)
>
Maybe add a parser based lpeg lexer will solve this issue, like this:
macro.define("|", function(get)
local names = get:names "|"
local expr = macro.parser.expr(get)
-- do what you want, maybe:
return "function("..names..") return "..macro.parser.dump(expr).."end"
end)
this will enable the full power of metalua.