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Passing a Language Through the Eye of a Needle.

The article discusses how design of the scripting language Lua was affected by a desire to make it well-suited to embedding in a system language. The authors survey general considerations regarding the integration of scripting and host languages, then turn their attention to issues specific to Lua....

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 54; no. 7; pp. 38 - 44
Autores principales: IERUSALIMSCHY, ROBERTO, FIGURIREDO, LUIZ HENRIQUE DE, CELES, WALDEMAR
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2011
Materias:
Scripting languages (Computer science)
Programming languages
Computer programming
Software engineering
Libraries (Computer program subroutines)
Artificial languages
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Sumario:The article discusses how design of the scripting language Lua was affected by a desire to make it well-suited to embedding in a system language. The authors survey general considerations regarding the integration of scripting and host languages, then turn their attention to issues specific to Lua. Topics covered include how Lua is able to function as both a standalone program and an embedded scripting language, how data flows between Lua and its host are handled, and how Lua compensates for not offering an "eval" function.