RE: Syntax check

["Chris Percival" <cpercival@...>]

Ah ok.  For a bit of background to my project, I will be trying to impliment
some kind of debugger, but first I just need to be able to have some kind of
syntax checking so the users of my application can 'test' their code before
actually running it.  I guess I have three options:

1. Don't do any syntax checking.  The script just gets executed when they
hit go.  Then I would need to know how to get the debug/error messages
outputted where I wanted them (not to stdout which I guess they goto at the
moment).

2. Use the compiler (as suggested) to perform the syntax checking.  Again I
would need to re-route the text output, and have some mechanism for showing
the user at what point the error is.  As its an exe in its own right, I need
to think carefully about how I impliment this.

3. Not use the compiler and write somthing my self.  My current knowledge is
much lacking at the moment to do this.

I am still in the early stages of using Lua, and the learning curve is
steep!

Chris Percival
Software Engineer
Interaxis Computing Ltd.
DDI:  +44 (0)1249 700072
http://www.interaxis.co.uk/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br
> [mailto:owner-lua-l@tecgraf.puc-rio.br]On Behalf Of Francis Irving
> Sent: 17 January 2002 13:23
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: Re: Syntax check
>
>
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 12:54:31 -0000, "Chris Percival"
> <cpercival@interaxis.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >Is it possible to syntax check Lua code before actually running
> it?  If so,
> >how?
>
> >From the command line, this does a "compile without running":
> 	luac -o chad.luc chad.lua
>
> Francis (who stole that line from the config files for SciTE, which is
> a good text editor to use with Lua)