Re: Lua as configuration language
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- Subject: Re: Lua as configuration language
- From: Alexander Nasonov <alnsn@...>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 21:48:46 +0000
Marc Balmer wrote:
> I posted a short article on how to use Lua as a configuration and data exchange language.
>
> Comments welcome.
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf
It's worth adding an explanation of multiline comments and strings.
It's also possible to implement something like this:
Iface "lo0" {
ip="127.0.0.1",
mask="255.0.0.0"
}
and build a framework to register sections and define validation
rules. For instance:
local Iface = Section { ip="string", mask="string" }
The simplest version of Iface is below.
function Iface(name)
return
function(content)
_G[name] = content
end
end
Alex