Re: A practical code analysis question

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

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Fabien <fleutot+lua@gmail.com> wrote:
>> T(ast)>>
>>     :under ('Forin', 'Fornum')
>>     :filter (is_op_concat)
>>     :foreach (function (node)
>>         local line = node.lineinfo.first.line
>>         printf ("Offending node on line %i", line)
>>     end)

That is a fantastic notation Fabien.

One could imagine a Lua-specific 'semantic grep' which would work like this:

$ sgrepl "(for (concat *))" *.lua

where 'for' is a shortcut predicate for (or forin fornum)

(S-expressions still have some life in them ;))

steve d.