Re: Lua minifier?

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Thiago L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:
> Aka Lua Shoveitdownircsthroat
>
> Here are a few tricks to minify Lua code:
>
> "x,y,z=t[a],b,c end" -> "y,z,x=b,c,t[a]end" (you have to be careful with
> this one as it doesn't work with function calls and a few other things I
> think)
> "a = x; b = nil; c = nil;" -> "a,b,c=x" (heh :3 the more nils you have, the
> more space you save)
> if type(x)=="table"then -> if"table"==type(x)then (saves 1 char, and while
> shovingitdownircsthroat, every char counts)
> local print=print; local x,y -> local print,x,y=print; (saves a "local", the
> space between "local" and the identifiers gets replaced with a ",")
>
> So would anyone like to write a Lua Shoveitdownircsthroat/Lua Minifier? :3
>
> --
> SoniEx2
>

Better yet, how about #tweetlua? ;)

/s/ Adam