Re: Debug Hooks

[Adrian Sietsma <adrian_groups@...>]

Tim Gogolin wrote:
> I also had a need to retrieve the source for a given lua function.
> The two approaches I could see were:
>
> 1) Write a lua parser

I have hacked lua2html so that it's now a keyword parser.

using a table similar to :

  local keyword_depth = {
    ['function']  = 1,
    ['if']        = 1,
    ['do']        = 1,
    ['end']       = -1,
  }

I can then parse out the function end. This is good enough for my 
current needs - when i've tidied it up && packaged it properly.
What i'm tempted to do is create a luaX_getinfo() or similar.
Or maybe luaX_getsource(), and return a string. (This could also be 
lua-callable)

Any ideas ?
Adrian

ps if lua 5.1 includes an end_line value in lua_getinfo(), that would 
solve it....