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- Subject: Re: Metatables for numbers
- From: "Brent Fulgham" <bfulgham@...>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:36:11 -0700
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
<lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> I was trying to use metatables to create a abstract syntax tree (AST)
>> like lisp from lua code.
>
> There's a similar example in the SPE paper:
> http://www.lua.org/spe.html
>
> See section "Using fallbacks", starting at "Another unusual facility
> provided by fallbacks is the reuse of Lua's parser".
>
> The code in that paper is for Lua 2.1 but it can be readily adapted for Lua 5.1.
> --lhf
>
