Re: passing nil as an argument

[Merick <Merick_TeVaran@...>]

Since this is an add-on, does that mean you'd have to work with the lua 
source itself to get this working? If so, then It's a little beyond me 
as I've never worked with C, I've been working with FreeBasic and 
pre-compiled lua libraries

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> Token filters are an experimental add-on to Lua 5. They've been 
> discussed extensively on the list, and there are a couple alternative 
> implementations currently.
>
> In short, they will allow one to "cut in" the token stream, modifying 
> syntactical things as long as the outcoming stream remains valid Lua 
> tokens. In the exhibited case, one would simply add "nil" where two 
> consequtive commas occur. In practise, it is not quite as simple as this.
>
> Alternatives to experiment with include lhf's token filter patch, my 
> fsyntax.lua/ftools.lua which builds upon it (adding syntax awareness), 
> and MetaLua (which in my opinion has way too complex expressions, but 
> I'm biased... ;)
>
> -asko
>
>
> http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=token+filter&sort=score&idxname=lua-l&max=20 
> <http://lua-users.org/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=token+filter&sort=score&idxname=lua-l&max=20>
>
>
>
> RJP Computing kirjoitti 22.7.2007 kello 20:55:
>
> > On 7/22/07, *Asko Kauppi* <askok@dnainternet.net 
> > <mailto:askok@dnainternet.net>> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     That would naturally not be valid Lua.  However, the effect is easily
> >     achievable with token filters.
> >
> >     -asko
> >
> >
> > I am interested in this and I am a bit new to Lua, so can you explain 
> > this a bit more?
> > Thanks.
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Ryan
> > RJP Computing
>
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