reuh/candran

a Lua dialect and simple preprocessor

candran's Issues

Compiler options

Would be useful to have available on the command line:

• Static require
• defining of preoprocessor constants

macros

Any plans to add macro support?

Something that would make syntax like this possible:

#ifdef _DEBUG
#define log(self, ...) self:log(...)
#else
#define log(self, ...) -- ...
#endif

I feel that would be alot more powerful than conditionals alone

var-- operator doesn't work

Because lexer.lua parse the "--" as a comment.

support pure-lua environments?

lpeglabel requires compilation, and support for native modules, while there are several alternative lua implementations, such as gopher-lua, which don't support compiled native modules

although I don't know of any pure-lua lpeglabel implementations, there are a couple of lua-based lpeg implementations, though, such as LuLPeg(emulates LPeg v0.12) and LPegLJ(LPeg v1.0, but for LuaJIT 2.x, so doesn't really count)

my use-case would be with Algernon web server, which embeds gopher-lua, so I don't need to also have a separate copy of "normal lua" to use candran with

Lua 5.1 compatibility

Lune currently only work on Lua 5.2. It would be nice if it was compatible with Lua 5.1 (and LuaJit).

Error with help on latest stable

$ canc -h

Candran 0.14.0 compiler by Reuh
Usage: /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/candran/0.14.0-1/bin/canc [options] filenames...
Use - instead of filenames to read from the standard input. The output file will be named stdin.lua by default.
Compiler options:
  dest="directory"  where compiled files should be written
  out="name.lua"    output filename. By default, will use the same name as the input file with a .lua extension.
  -print            write to the standard output instead of creating files
  -preprocess       only run the preprocessor
  -compile          only run the compiler
  -parse            only parse the file and prints errors to stdout
  -ast              (for debugging purposes) only parse the files and dump the AST to stdout
  -help or -h       print this text
Default options:
/usr/bin/lua5.1: ...cal/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/candran/0.14.0-1/bin/canc:26: bad argument #2 to 'format' (string expected, got boolean)
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'format'
        ...cal/lib/luarocks/rocks-5.1/candran/0.14.0-1/bin/canc:26: in main chunk
        [C]: ?