Re: bug in lua.c (Lua-5.0) while embedding the interpreter into bash-2.05

["Weiguang Shi" <wgshizz@...>]

On 3/9/07, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> > My approach, however, is to include the standard Lua interpreter
> > itself into bash as a builtin.
>
> This is overkill. Lua was meant to be embeded into application; the standard
> interpreter is just an example. To embed Lua into a shell as you want,
> just create a Lua state, open some Lua libraries into it and then load
> and execute lines read from the user into it. --lhf

I don't know about overkill but it's so easy; I can't resist ;-)

Wei