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

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Axel Kittenberger <axkibe@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also you might consider just your "DDL" to be simple valid Lua code.
> Lua call syntax and so allows you to create an environment with custom
> function that very much doesn't need to look like lua.

For instance, this is valid Lua:

device "norba" {
   dev = 'ttyS2',
   baudrates = {19200,115200},
   IRQ = 4
}

It works because device can be defined as a function that takes a
string, and returns a function that receives a table - the call syntax
sugar makes this readable. (device() is a nice example of a useful
'curried' function in Lua)

steve d.