Re: Help function for lua
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- Subject: Re: Help function for lua
- From: Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>
- Date: 2020年1月16日 13:12:06 -0500
On 2020年1月16日 at 12:58, bil til <flyer31@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> To make lua even a bit nicer for beginners, and to support nice lib
> documentation, I think it would be very nice if lua in some future
> optionally could support some function like Phyton help() in some future
> version.
untested!!:
--- help.lua
local h = {
[assert] = [=[assert (v [, message])
Issues an error when the value of its argument v is false (i.e., nil
or false); otherwise, returns all its arguments. message is an error
message; when absent, it defaults to "assertion failed!"]=],
[ipairs] = [=[ipairs (t)
Returns three values: an iterator function, the table t, and 0, so
that the construction
for i,v in ipairs(t) do body end
will iterate over the pairs (1,t[1]), (2,t[2]), ···, up to the first
integer key absent from the table.]=],
....
[coroutine.create] = [=[coroutine.create (f)
Creates a new coroutine, with body f. f must be a Lua function.
Returns this new coroutine, an object with type "thread".]=],
.....
}
return function (x)
return h[x] or "unknown "..tostring(x)
end
--- end of help.lua
use:
> help = require "help"
> help(ipairs)
ipairs (t)
Returns three values: an iterator function, the table t, and 0, so
that the construction
for i,v in ipairs(t) do body end
will iterate over the pairs (1,t[1]), (2,t[2]), ···, up to the first
integer key absent from the table.
something like this? version detection left as an exercise. (now that
I think of it, maybe Penlight already has something similar?)
--
Javier