Re: Lexer and syntax highlighter powered by LPeg

["Andy Stark" <AStark@...>]

Peter Odding wrote:
> Hi all! Despite my interest in LPeg it took me till last week to try 
> it out.
> First evaluation: it rocks :). I think LPeg can be for Lua what
>regex are for Perl. 
>That is, in popularity, because LPeg's flexibility and speed
>are already amazing.

Would it be feasible/desirable for a future version of Lua to use PEG
techniques (coded in C) in its own parser? If LPEG was distributed as a
standard library, then would it be possible for Lua's parser to be written
in Lua, perhaps with a few extra library functions)?

&.


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