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No because this is DSL territory, and I can make 3 kinds of mistakes :-)On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:38 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Wim Langers <wim.langers@adrias.biz> wrote:So you don't get good errors when loading with dofile()? I'm assuming
> hand (copy/paste/change parameters) in a large file structured as a lua
> table/program.
that if it's structured as Lua, then it is read using Lua.
steve d.
- against Lua syntax : which is reported but isn't very helpful (in view of the DSL-ness of the data)
- (the majority of mistakes) against DSL syntax : which isn't reported (or just crashes the program)
- against use of DSL variables : of which I get a visual feedback and which suffices for the time being
To elaborate a bit more on the application itself :
I'm reverse engineering some 20 PLC's and have to present the results in charts (after one year I have some 1100 charts).
I didn't feel like drawing (and correcting/maintaining) them by hand so I wrote a Lua program which can "generate" charts starting from a textual representation of it's contents (variables, shapes, connections). The program also generates cross references and some other collateral data.
So this textual representation resides in a Lua program/data file separate from the actual program. All would be fine if I would generate the DSL data from within my application, but this is to tedious. It's much faster to copy/paste (but error prone)...
Any ideas/pointers appreciated !!
cheers ,
Wim