On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 6:47 AM, Alexander Gladysh
<agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 16:22, Gopalakrishnan Subramani
<gopalakrishnan.subramani@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> What are the toolset/libraries available in Lua to write the interpretter in
> Lua for a Domain Specific Language? Can you point the different way of
> implementing interpreter like
>
> 1. Should I convert the language to Lua byte code convention before
> execution?
> 2. The core framework will be written in Lua say for example print "hello"
> in the domain specific language calls a Lua print or similar function
> writing in Lua. I am not sure whether to map to lua function or should I
> generate Lua byte codes.
>
> Looking for general advice, where as I never had experience writing
> interpretter myself, but this is going to be long term project for us. Any
> basic/intermediate/advanced tutorials or examples would be appreciated.
Shameless plug: for a particular kind of embedded declarative DSLs
(pretty expressive one), you may use this approach:
http://www.slideshare.net/agladysh/declarative-internal-dsls-in-lua-a-game-changing-experience
Alexander.
