Re: Lua 5 Grammar update

[Klaas-Jan Stol <vanderlay@...>]

Mike Pall wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Klaas-Jan Stol wrote:
>  
>
> > for sake of completeness, I just updated the Lua wiki with a link to a 
> > Lua 5 grammar for Bison (or Yacc).
> >    
>
> Oh, nice! But you forgot the URL: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaGrammar
>
>  
>
> > I'm using this grammar in my attempt 
> > to write a Lua compiler targeting Parrot, the new virtual machine for 
> > Perl6.
> >    
>
> Since you are restarting the Lua/Parrot project at this time,
> maybe it would be a good idea to use the Lua 5.1 grammar?
>
> It's not that different from Lua 5.0. We gained two new operators
> ('*x' to get the object size and 'x%y' for modulo) and the
> ellipsis token ('...') is now a valid multi-result expression
> representing the variable arguments inside a varargs function.
>
>  
Is the new syntax overview of 5.1 already published? If so, could you 
give me a link? I could try to insert the new syntax elements into my 
parser.

thanks,

klaas-jan