Re: First impressions and errata

[Petite Abeille <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 23, 2014, at 4:14 PM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:

> Of course a list printer (which is, after all, just a minor convenience) would make the interpreter a lot more complex and will never satisfy everybody. Apologies for uncovering a Pandora vase ;-)

Pandora's box indeed. Nonetheless, it would be convenient to have some sort of table dump/pretty print.

In the meantime, I personally like Paul Kulchenko’s ‘Serpent' implementation:

http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/serpent-lua-serializer-pretty-printer
https://github.com/pkulchenko/serpent