Re: passing nil as an argument

[Asko Kauppi <askok@...>]

You might opt to wait a year or so, to see how (and if) token filters  
get adopted to mainstream in some way or another.

..or at least wait until the end of the year.  Every language  
community has stable and experimental features. This one is still the  
latter.

-asko


Merick kirjoitti 22.7.2007 kello 21:59:

> 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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