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"lust"?.... Being one of the 7 deadly sins, this either makes the name really cool for some, and perhaps not so cool for others. > From: wakefield@mat.ucsb.edu > Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:43:50 +0900 > To: lua-l@lists.lua.org > Subject: Re: [ANN] Lust (Lua String Templates) > > Cool, thanks for getting this out, Wes! > > Another possibly interesting little fact about Lust's implementation is that each template defined is internally reified into a program by generating Lua code specialized to the template, which in some cases can significantly speed up processing. > > Graham > > On Apr 13, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Wesley Smith wrote: > > > Hi List, > > This is to announce a new templating system for Lua inspired by Terrence Parr's StringTemplate [1][2]. We have used Lust to deploy a pretty sizable runtime Lua -> C/C++ code generation system so it has been tested in the field quite extensively. > > > > Lust operates an Lua tables as directed by operations defined in the template strings. There is a lot of variation possible in the syntax, so the README is mostly short examples since that's the easiest way to describe the system. > > > > One of the unique features of Lust is dynamic dispatch within the templating system. With this feature, it's possible to turn the templates themselves into a description of a state machine, which is extremely useful for complicated templates such as those that synthesize code from an AST. See the examples/dispatch.lua example script for a short demo of this design pattern. > > > > Lust can be found on github at: https://github.com/weshoke/Lust > > cheers, > > wes > > > > [1] http://bit.ly/XIY2G9 > > [2] http://www.stringtemplate.org/ > > |