Re: [With Apologies] LPeg Lua-Variant Language

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:

On 23 August 2014 02:12, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> The description and mission that is stated for Lua seems out of step with
> LPeg. I say this because of LPeg's size, relative to Lua and because it's
> not minimalistic, as Lua is. (Although it is minimalistic, compared with
> other tools in specialized use cases.)
>
> If it's at all interesting to the authors: if Lua were imagined as a
> replacement for Pearl, including LPeg in place of regex, what might it look
> like?

Shine seems to be just what you're asking for: a Lua variant with
integrated LPeg:

https://github.com/richardhundt/shine

-- Hisham

Thanks for the link!

-Andrew

["Asking for" isn't right, though. I was just skittlebrough-ing]