On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 12:02 +0300, askok@dnainternet.net
wrote:
Opinions, am I getting completely nuts?
[snip]
Well, you already were nuts, but Aranha does have
something similar to
this as you may recall from my presentation at the
conference.
Aranha has:
some string with |value|s interpolated into it.<<
Where things in | markers are considered as expressions
and parsed as
such in Lua's parser.
That above string gets parsed by Aranha as
__divertedstring("some string with %ss interpolated into
it.", value)
But you get to have a lot more fun when you do things
like
Hello |name|. You are |myage - yourage #d| years younger
than I am.<<
which is *parsed* as:
__divertedstring("Hello %s. You are %d years younger
than I am.", name,
myage - yourage)
Thusly allowing arbitrary expressions to be
interpolated.
It wouldn't be a massive thing to do to extract this bit
of Aranha's
functionality and alter it to be something slightly more
generic for Lua
proper.
D.
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