Re: Luma errors

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@acm.org> wrote:
>
> I have updated luma.re to work with LPEG 0.10, forking LPEG's re.lua.
> The changes are simple:
>
> * allow _ as a non-terminal name

I used to patch re.lua the same way as you to allow underscores in
non-terminals, but since 0.10 allows underscores in the trailing part of
names I dropped that part of my patch. I think re.lua would be less weird
if it allowed initial underscores like other languages.

> * search for non-terminals in the definitions first (instead of
> requiring definitions to be prepended by %)

I also have a patch to do this:

https://github.com/fanf2/lua-5/commit/1143f16f

Tony.
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