Re: lua_load hook (was On the subject of Lua's grammar... --[[ ]])

[Andre de Leiradella <leiradella@...>]

Hey, I can't wait to make a Lua luareader! It'll make it much easier to
write pre-processors to filter Lua source code, as lhf already showed in
another message!

Andre de Leiradella
http://www.geocities.com/andre_leiradella/

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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:19:21 -0200
From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br>
Subject: Re: lua_load hook (was On the subject of Lua's grammar...
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BTW, Lua 5.1 removes the restriction that you cannot call Lua from a
reader. In particular it provides the "load" function in Lua, so it will
be possible to write such hooks in Lua itself.

-- Roberto