Re: live lua demo - ideas for extending
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- Subject: Re: live lua demo - ideas for extending
- From: "Jim Whitehead II" <jnwhiteh@...>
- Date: 2008年2月28日 11:28:33 +0000
On 2/28/08, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
> Here's some ideas for extending the online Lua demo (
> http://www.lua.org/cgi-bin/demo ). Make it an AJAX-like application so that it
> mimics the Lua command interpreter. Maybe add IntelliSense and syntax
> highlighting as well. Virtualize the I/O layer: replace fopen/fread/fwrite C
> library calls in the Lua VM with functions that access a virtual file system in
> memory (rather than simply removing the I/O functions as done in the current
> sandbox). Allow a certain set of known URLs (e.g. code on the lua-users wiki)
> to be appended to package.path so that modules can be retrieved over the
> Internet via "require" and run in the sandbox. This shouldn't be particularly
> difficult, though I don't feel like doing this myself, but if anyone else wants
> to pick up the idea, I think it would be a useful project.
Unless David has any objections, I'll write this up as a proper
project proposal for Google Summer of Code, and would offer to mentor
the student that might choose to undertake it. We can go quite far
with this, and I think combined with some of the other ideas that have
been proposed, would be a big win for the Lua community.
- Jim