Re: C with embedded Lua or Lua-only program?

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

Silas Silva <silasdb@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. Is there any replacement for lex/flex & yacc/bison for Lua?  How do
>    you design DSLs in Lua?  I thought about using Lex & Yacc + C it is a
>    long standing wish of mine to learn parsers, BNF with Lex & Yacc...

Use "LPeg" -- it's fast, easy to use, and very expressive, and is well
supported and popular in the Lua community.  LPeg can replace both lex
and yacc (just think of a grammar which goes down to the character
level).

-Miles

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