Re: Lua AST and Parsing a "C" Like language

[Pierre Chapuis <catwell@...>]

On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:58:59 -0600, Gopalakrishnan Subramani wrote:
> I want to learn the Language parsing in Lua. The idea is to parse a
> language called DDL (Device Description Language) and generate the 
> Lua
> code out of it.
>
> Where I can start with if I dont know how the languages and semantics
> works? Are any Lua library supports easy language parsing?
>
> The .NET version (http://irony.codeplex.com/ [1]) is huge and it is
> difficult to understand. I believe, Lua could support simple parsing
> and AST building and code generation easily.

You should probably take a look at LPeg:
http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

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Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis