Re: What's up with token filters (Re: New operators?)

[Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>]

> Rather than hacking token queues to translate from an arbitrary concrete
> syntax to another, wouldn't you think that the right level of abstraction is
> the abstract syntax tree, with some tree manipulation library, and a generic
> mechanism to plug stuff into the parser during compilation? :)

The Lua parser does not build abstract syntax trees at all.
--lhf