Lua and LPeg

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 01:53:14PM -0500, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Martin Holst Swende <martin () swende se> wrote:
> > Yes and no. I took a quick look at what libraries existed, but license
> > issues (of which I am no expert) and/or overly complicated behaviour put
> > me off. For example, the luaforge-library is 10+files (not counting
> > testcases) and, in addition, requires Lpeg, a complete library for
> > parsing grammar. Had Json been a lot more complex than it actually is,
> > that perhaps had seemed the best solution. That being said, other
> > implementations may be better than mine, and if you have any suggestions
> > once you have looked at the code they are most welcome.
>
> Well, the luaforge library is MIT licensed (same as Lua) so no problem
> there. The library itself is modularized into files which is good and
> bad, mostly good when it comes to LPeg. My feeling on LPeg is that
> Nmap will eventually have it because Lua will eventually have it.
> Plus, LPeg is appropriate for most parsing problems (JSON fits nicely)
> that are network related. What we are waiting for is a library/script
> that heavily relies on it that justifies the addition of LPeg. The
> JSON library may have been that library :)

LPeg is planned to be in a future release of Lua, right? Then I think we
should wait for that so that someone else is maintaining it. I admit
that it is cool technically and I am interested in learning more about
it.

David Fifield
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