Re: [announce] Metalua: Lua + full macros

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

Hi all,

Karel Tuma wrote:
> so finally someone managed yueliang to do something meaningful!
> definitively looks promising! .. i always wished for ASTs in lua
> of some sort but was too lazy to dig into yueliang that deep.
> (not to mention it's 5.0 based iirc)

Glad to see it being used. A brief update on Yueliang. I coded 
Yueliang as a no-brainer port of the C code, currently the front 
end only, and I've recently restarted work on it. I've been adding 
comments liberally for educational purposes and rewriting the 
5.0.2 Lua llex, then got a bit sidetracked optimizing a simplified 
version of the lexer down to 3346 bytes, compiled and stripped.

Many thanks to Fabien, he has done all the work updating the code 
to 5.1. I've been putting off updating to 5.1 for too long. I'll 
check out Metalua, then update my svn files and make a release for 
Yueliang soon.

My short-term goal is to write an incremental parser for Lua 
syntax checking on SciTE, so I can get immediate squiggly-line 
feedback. :-)

> [snip]

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia