Re: Request for LPeg feature

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-04-21 2:30 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
> It was thus said that the Great Albert Chan once stated:
>> On Apr 19, 2018, at 11:10 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >  More specifically, a production in the 're' module of LPeg, for folding
>> > captures.  I even have a proposed syntax:
>> >
>> >    {^name^ p ^}    folding capture equivalent to lpeg.Cf(p,defs[name])
>> >
>>
>> ~> for folding capture is probably better
>>
>> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2015-08/msg00029.html
>
>   Heh ... I forgot about that.
>
>   I looked at re.lua last night and realized my own proposal could be done
> in one line of code, much like Alex's proposal is also one line of code.
> I'm not wedded to my syntax [1] but I would like the ability to do a folding
> capture added to re, that way I don't have to rely upon a custom version
> just to have nice looking code.
>
>   Please, Roberto?  Please?

Don't distract Roberto from lua-5.4.0-work2 just now :-)