Re: ANN: Serpent: Lua serializer and pretty printer

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2012/6/6 Paul K <paulclinger@yahoo.com>:
> Yes, yet another serializer and pretty printer. I carefully studied
> existing implementations and described my rationale and examples here:
> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/serpent-lua-serializer-pretty-printer.
>

Very nice.  I've been using Lua for 18 months but Serpent taught me
something I never quite realized before: a "long comment" can
be shorter than a "short comment".

--[[ Initialize ]]        x=2
--[[ Newton iteration ]]  repeat local y=x; x=(x+2/x)/2
--[[ Convergence test ]]  until x>=y

It runs under Lua 5.2 but does not treat "goto" as a keyword.