Re: Can LPeg do basic arithmetic?

["Soni L." <fakedme@...>]

On 05/07/16 05:18 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Soni L. once stated:
> > As you may or may not know by now, regex can do basic arithmetic, with
> > unary integers.[1] Can LPeg do better, say with binary integers, or
> > binary floats, or even full-blown decimal?
>    Yup.  You can do the regex approach with a substitution capture
> (lpeg.Cs()) or even a full blown calculator (there's an example on the LPeg
> web page).
Too bad it's not pure LPeg, instead deferring to a Lua function for it.
>    -spc (For more fun, write an LPeg expression that can run compiled Lua
> 	code ... )

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