Re: C preprocessor style #line support

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 26/08/2011 2.21, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > You could actually run Lua files through the C preprocessor for true
> > #define support.
>
> It will probably mostly work but note that the C preprocessor does
> not understand Lua comments or long strings and will perform macro
> substitution on their contents. However, this may be a feature.
>
> Also, cpp will probably choke on any Lua code that uses # in the first
> column, but I guess this will be rare :-).
Unless one is really fond of Rici Lake's templating engine or its 
derivatives :-)

-- Lorenzo