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by leafo 14y ago
I didn't roll my own parser generator, I used LPeg: http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/ It's a great library, I highly recommend it. I've assembled a few parsers using various tools, and I must say PEGs are my favorite. They are very
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MoonScript v0.2.2 is released(leafo.net)
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If you use Mark Otto's GitHub buttons your site is broken(github.com)
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Show HN: I wrote a SCSS compiler in PHP(leafo.net)
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by leafo 14y ago
This is a cool project, but sadly it's not a complete Lua. It's missing two of Lua's most powerful features: A lot of the metatable functionality just won't work: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#2.8 Second, it's missing co-routi
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by leafo 14y ago
I maintain a buildpack for lua if anyone is interested: https://github.com/leafo/heroku-buildpack-lua
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How does one prepare enough to get a perfect score on the SAT?(quora.com)
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Using dmenu to open files quickly in Vim(leafo.net)
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GNOME 3.4 Released(gnome.org)
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by leafo 15y ago
and here's link to pdf http://www.mediafire.com/?9264mdslw3sm630
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by leafo 15y ago
no ads, change doc to fullscreen in the url: http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/84156085/
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MoonScript installation guide(leafo.net)
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Running Lua on Heroku(leafo.net)
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by leafo 15y ago
Lua is a great platform, but I think there are a lot of areas where it can be made more programmer friendly. That's why I wrote http://moonscript.org/
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by leafo 15y ago
Here's my two line shell script that accomplishes the same thing (sans dropbox). Been using it for years and it's a lifesaver. https://gist.github.com/1683661 You need scrot, xclip, and libnotify. Set up private key ssh access to your web
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by leafo 15y ago
Look at how MoonScript handles this: http://moonscript.org/reference/#the_using_clause_controllin... I didn't want to change the default semantics, but I wanted to have a way for the programmer to be safe if they wanted to, so I created t
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by leafo 15y ago
Lua is actually pretty verbose. The MoonScript codebase is about 1700 lines of MoonScript and it compiles up to 3k lines of Lua (and that's without whitespace and comments) Things like classes, comprehensions, and other syntactic sugar real
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by leafo 15y ago
If you like CoffeeScript you should try out http://moonscript.org CoffeeScript inspired syntax that compiles right to Lua.
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by leafo 15y ago
I've love to see http://moonscript.org support.
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by leafo 15y ago
I think it being difficult to read is entirely subjective. I don't know Haskell, and if I were to look at the code for a Haskell project I wouldn't understand it, but that doesn't mean that those who use it find it difficult to read. After
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by leafo 15y ago
I can understand your doubt. After writing a decent amount of Lua I really started to notice it lacking succinct ways to express things that I've become used to in other languages. So I wrote the language for myself to use, but I've opened
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by leafo 15y ago
Hi, I'm the author. You're right about the resemblance to CoffeeScript. I added some recognition at the bottom. Thanks for pointing it out, I just got the site up within the last hour so there are still finishing touches to be made.