LuaMacro

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• Functions

Modules

• macro
• macro.Getter
• macro.TokenList
• macro.assert
• macro.builtin
• macro.clexer
• macro.do
• macro.forall
• macro.lambda
• macro.lc
• macro.lexer
• macro.lib.class
• macro.libs.test
• macro.module
• macro.try
• macro.with

Scripts

• luam

Module macro.lexer

A Lua lexical scanner using LPeg.

= CREDITS Written by Peter Odding, 2007/4/4

= THANKS TO - the Lua authors for a wonderful language; - Roberto for LPeg; - caffeine for keeping me awake :)

= LICENSE Shamelessly ripped from the SQLite[3] project:

The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing:

  May you do good and not evil.
  May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others.
  May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

Functions

scan_lua (input, name)

get a token iterator from a source containing Lua code.

Functions

scan_lua (input, name)

get a token iterator from a source containing Lua code. Note that this token iterator includes spaces and comments, and does not convert string and number tokens - so e.g. a string token is quoted and a number token is an unconverted string.

Parameters:

• input: the source - can be a string or a file-like object (i.e. read() returns line)
• name: for the source