Re: C++ religious war (was: llua Higher-level C API for Lua)

[David Crayford <dcrayford@...>]

On 17/03/2014 9:02 PM, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 2:12 PM, David Crayford <dcrayford@gmail.com> wrote:
> > My non-stupid editor is Slickedit which has reasonably decent support for
> > Lua. I ran my beady eye over your LDoc which seems promising to create tag
> > files for SE.
> Interesting idea!  The 'canonical' exuberant ctags implementation does
> not do a fantastic job, especially if not using modules.  You get
> "test.asserteq' as the function name, not just plain asserteq, and it
> does not know that local functions are special and tag them as having
> file scope (as it would do with a static C function).
>
> LDoc is well-positioned to do the job, because it's already doing the
> basic parsing.

Slickedit tag files for Lua handle packages with an interface keyword, 
so the os package is defined like so (which give context assist).

interface os {
   function clock();
   function date(format, time);
   function difftime(t2, t1);
   function execute(command);
   function exit(code);
   function getenv(varname);
   function remove(filename);
   function rename(oldname, newname);
   function setlocale(locale, category);
   function time(table);
   function tmpname();
}

IIRC, it's possible to annoate arguments with @format etc. Can LDoc be 
used to generate a table of function/arguments to generate such a structure?