Re: Lua IPython Kernel

[Lucas <kkndrox@...>]

Speaking of notebook interfaces, there is an initial effort to have a
Lua backend for the Cantor [1] software, from KDE, that provides a
notebook-like interface for different backends. It provides highlight
and code completion, but no 'docstrings' yet.

It was released with KDE 4.14.

[1]: http://oproj.tuxfamily.org/math/lua/kde/2014/08/04/cantor.html

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:28 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> LDoc comes closest, but its sigils annoy me,
>
> Believe me, they annoy me too ;)
>
> There is an experimental 'colon' mode in ldoc, e.g.
>
> https://github.com/stevedonovan/LDoc/blob/master/tests/styles/colon.lua
>
> --- first useless function.
> -- Optional type specifiers are allowed in this format.
> -- As an extension, '?T' is short for '?nil|T'.
> -- Note how these types are rendered!
> -- string: name
> -- int: age
> -- ?person3: options
> -- treturn: ?table|string
> function one (name,age,options)
> end
>
> So, less @ signs.
>
> Of course, LDoc only really requires that the first comment has at
> least three dashes, and the first sentence is treated as the summary.
>  E.g. how the Lua standard functions are marked up (I inherited these
> files from mitchel's Textadept project):
>
> https://github.com/stevedonovan/LDoc/blob/master/ldoc/builtin/math.lua
>
> It is possible to write scripts that extract these summaries and
> function names from the internal representation.
>
> steve d.
>



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