Re: [ANN] LuaJIT Roadmap 2011

["Juris Kalnins" <juris@...>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 07:23:29 +0200, steve donovan  
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:50 PM, David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote:
> > Interestingly enough, the absence of a @line directive in Lua is
> > crippling Objective Lua's ability to be useful.
>
> Although it would not become mainline, a patched Lua specifically
> designed as a flexible back-end is possible and useful: @line and
> goto.
>
> Anything else that would be needed?

tag-length-value tokens for strings and identifiers, so that code
generator can simply output escape, string/data length, and then
copy out raw data.