Re: Lua syntax support?
Re: Lua syntax support?
- Subject: Re: Lua syntax support?
- From: "E. Wing" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:46:26 -0800
> From: James Baldwin
>
> There's at least 1 problem that I know of: according to the Lua
> reference manual at http://www.lua.org, a "#" can only indicate a
> comment at the beginning of a line (am I wrong?). I couldn't find any
> documentation on the language specification apart from the examples for
> the built in languages, and thus couldn't find a way to anchor it. I
> assumed it would be too much to hope for that a "^#" would work?
>
Actually, as far as I know, the # symbol is not a valid comment symbol
in Lua (5.0) with one exception.
The very first line of a file is allowed to use the # symbol for a
comment. I think this was done to accomodate Unix shells, e.g.
#!/usr/bin/lua
Anywhere else, the # symbol as a comment would be invalid.
I have no idea if Xcode can handle this exception.
FYI, I think I read in Lua 5.1, the block commenting system will be
enhanced to allow you to define your own custom patterns for comment
blocks. I think the intention was to allow people to define unque
comment blocks that would not clash with random data that could clash
with the predefined patterns.
Anyway, thanks for providing a file spec.
-Eric
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