Re: Lua Syntax as a Wire Format?

["David Burgess" <david@...>]

How would this work, where the two ends of the rpc
operate with different character sets e.g. EBCDIC and ASICII?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christian Lindig" <lindig@eecs.harvard.edu>
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Subject: Lua Syntax as a Wire Format?


> 
> I have learned from Roberto Ierusalimschy's talk at Harvard that Lua has
> an extremely fast parser. This make me think that Lua syntax would be a
> good format to use for an RPC protocol between two applications that
> talk to each other. Both applications would have a Lua interpreter that
> receives and sends out the data. While the parser in Lua is there for
> the incoming data I am interested in a print() or write() function that
> the receiving side could use to send back an answer. Ideally such a
> function would be able to print every Lua data structure in Lua syntax
> such that it can be read back by the Lua parser. Scheme implements this
> functionality with read() and write() and I think it is a very powerful
> concept. Comments?
> 
> -- Christian
> 
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