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- Subject: Re: Making custom DSLs starting with "!" and "@"
- From: Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@...>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 08:53:50 -0200
> I want to support some custom syntax like the following in a Lua console I have implemented:
>
> !ls -lrt
> or
> @name{....}
>
> The exclamation mark and "@" are not valid Lua syntax so currently I detect them in the typed string and replace with valid Lua code - macro pre-processing.
>
> But is there a way to make it valid given the flexibility of Lua to make DSLs.
Experiment with ltokenp. See
http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2018-07/msg00683.html.
