Re: native annotation support? (Hao Wu)

[Jay Carlson <nop@...>]

On Aug 4, 2014 6:28 AM, "Sim" <Sim@iamsim.ru> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know there are a zillion ways to do this, but it sounds to me that
>> they will either need an additional compilation step or a customized
>> interpreter, or extra keystrokes
>>
>> What I am asking for is a simple '@' symbol for annotation that would
>> be safely discarded; (-- would work, but I would just hope for an even
>> simpler symbol)
>>
>> Would this ever be taken?
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Hi!
> I completely agree about usefulness annotations.
> Today it may be created like this using Metalua (http://lua-users.org/wiki/MetaLua) extension:
>
> local someTable = {
> -{ persistent() }
> id = 15,
> -{ persistent() }
> name = 'user',
> }
>
> You mean, that should be clear syntax like:
>
> local someTable = {
> @persistent
> id = 15,
> @persistent
> name="user",
> }

What should happen at compile-time in PUC-Rio Lua?