On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 02:37, Dimiter "malkia" Stanev<malkia@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Somewhat better version, that can work on multiple tables (environments),
rather than one... This way one can add, for example, the process
environment as table, and expand it there, or some last-minute workaround
table for missing keys.
...
I wrote a string interpolator a while ago, but the biggest problem I
found was locals and upvalues. There's no good way to look them up by
name. Maybe a preprocessor that replaces $(foo) with
"..tostring(foo).." (or whatever type of quotes are necessary for the
given string) would be a good way to fix that. (You could even do like
PHP and only do it for double-quoted strings.) Trouble then is it
doesn't work on strings generated at runtime, and doesn't permit more
complex expressions. (Mine for example allows crazy things like
"$(string.reverse $(blah))".)
Or I can just keep dreaming that someday Lua will provide a method to
look up variables in the current local scope by name... :~)
