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

[Should Pain <pengzhicheng1986@...>]

于 2011-8-22 12:58, Gopalakrishnan Subramani 写道:
> 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.
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> Where I can start with if I don't know how the languages and semantics works? Are any Lua library supports easy language parsing?
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> The .NET version (http://irony.codeplex.com/) is huge and it is difficult to understand. I believe, Lua could support simple parsing and AST building and code generation easily.
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> Gopal
see the `meta-lua' project, which includes some useful utilities, and which is itself a good example of AST parsing and manipulating and things like such.

I have learned a lot from meta-lua, both the code and the manual.

You may see to it.

Goodlucky.