Re: Lua as configuration language

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn@...>]

Marc Balmer wrote:
> I posted a short article on how to use Lua as a configuration and data exchange language.
> 
> Comments welcome.
> 
> http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf

It's worth adding an explanation of multiline comments and strings.

It's also possible to implement something like this:

Iface "lo0" {
    ip="127.0.0.1",
    mask="255.0.0.0"
}

and build a framework to register sections and define validation
rules. For instance:

local Iface = Section { ip="string", mask="string" }

The simplest version of Iface is below.

function Iface(name)
        return
                function(content)
                        _G[name] = content
                end
end

Alex