Re: HTML authoring by Lua?

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:10, Philippe Lhoste wrote:
>
> > Aranha is nice, but uses a modified Lua, which change slightly the syntax (for better 
> > integration of flow of HTML code in Lua and vice versa).
> > I don't know why, but I am a bit uncomfortable with that...
>
> I'm interested to know why you dislike what is effectively the nicest
> feature of the language from an author's point of view.

Dislike may be too strong a word, just "uncomfortable"...

Perhaps because when I started to learn Lua, I was impressed to see that "if you 
change the Lua syntax, no longer call it Lua" (paraphrased, I cannot find the 
original sentence). It makes sense to me, to avoid having many dialects.

Your syntax is interesting, but it needs to alter Lua's sources, that's what makes me 
uncomfortable, but that's mostly irrational and just my feelings.

Don't be offended, please :-P

Note: perhaps you can submit your patch to be included in Lua 5.1?

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