Using Lua patterns outside of Lua

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

Hey all,

Just thought I'd leave here a small success story. Today I merged a
surprisingly small commit [1] that adds Lua's pattern matching to my
research group's software project CCTools [2]. This was pleasantly
simple; with only a small amount of preprocessor magic and defining
luaL_error [3], I was able to add Lua's pattern matching code
unmodified.

Big thanks to the Lua authors for keeping the pattern matcher so well
contained and uncoupled to Lua.

[1] https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/commit/9fda9b1530f6946b22024c915384c9a4a5764e4b
[2] https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools
[3] https://github.com/cooperative-computing-lab/cctools/commit/9fda9b1530f6946b22024c915384c9a4a5764e4b#diff-97e202fc9e79affdf0d247f0d7cf7f9eR9

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Patrick Donnelly