Re: C under Lua

[Lisa Parratt <lisa@...>]

David Given wrote:
> This is a rather big 'all': it's *not* something that can be done portably on 
> any system.

Actually, my current cheat (because I can't be bothered to do what 
you've described yet ;) is to use the same syntax tree to compute all 
the primitive types of function dispatch, spit it out in a C file, 
compile it into a (dynamic) library, and then use that to dispatch the 
calls. Wonderfully portable, an acceptable level of hackiness - the only 
real downsides with it is it need preprocessing (but then so do the data 
structures from the syntax tree), and that it can't support varargs.