Re: Using Lua to replace C

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

Richter, Jörg <Joerg.Richter <at> pdv-FS.de> writes:

> 
> > I can work around this with an extra
> > level of script, but it means that I can't easily start Zile from a
> > hash-bang script.
> 
> I often solve problems like this with a combined lua/sh script:
> 
> Like so:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   A=--[[ LUA_INIT= LUA_PATH= LUA_CPATH= exec lua "$0" "$@"  # -*- mode: lua; -
*- ]]A
>   print( "hello world" )
> 
> Note the /bin/sh in the shebang line.
> And with -*- mode: lua; -*- even emacs gets it right.

Nice, thanks for this handy trick. I'd forgotten seeing similar tricks for Perl 
in the past.