Re: LUA and #-style comments

[Kein-Hong Man <mkh@...>]

mgix@mgix.com wrote:
> In the never ending quest to please my customers,
> I have had to add support to LUA for one line comments
> that start with '#' (a la Perl, csh, etc ...)
>
> To this end, I patched llex.c, function luaX_lex
> (patch against 5.0.2 is attached below).
>
> Since the patch was hastily made, and since I am
> not a lua code base expert, I was wondering if anyone
> could tell me what kind of impact, if any, that change
> may have on the rest of the language.

Comments never get out of the lexer, so there is zero impact
on the rest of Lua.
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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia