Re: A library to build Lua AST

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 6 September 2013 15:22, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, list,
>
> A lazy question here.
>
> I need to build Lua 5.1 AST for a bunch of files — as a bunch of
> nested plain Lua tables.
>
> I.e., more or less, what Metalua does.
>
> I do not need that library to do anything with these tables — I'll
> manage that myself (but I can just ignore extra functionality, no
> problem — as long as it is not too bloated).
>
> Last time I looked (several years ago), Metalua was not a very clean
> solution (if I remember correctly). I would like a plain Lua 5.1 code,
> supported by LuaJIT, installable as a neat and self-contained rock,
> which would not affect anything in my environment and do what it is
> told.
>
> I see that several new libraries appeared on a horizon, and Metalua
> itself moved on a bit.
>
> Is there something out there that will suit my desires? Or what I can
> adapt reasonably well?

Not sure if it does what you want, but did you check out Leg? It has a
Lua 5.1 grammar in LPeg, and it's available as a rock.

-- Hisham