Re: luac -l -l

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick@...>]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Farmbuyer <farmbuyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep forgetting about the handy "-l -l" behavior when producing
> bytecode listings.  It doesn't appear to be documented anywhere for
> 5.1, unless I'm badly overlooking something (always a possibility).
>
> The current lua-5.2.0-beta.tar.gz doesn't include the luac.1 *roff
> source, so I couldn't check if it's been added there, but I was hoping
> something simple could be added to the man page and to the usage
> output, e.g.,
>
> --- luac.c.orig
> +++ luac.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
>  fprintf(stderr,
>   "usage: %s [options] [filenames]\n"
>   "Available options are:\n"
> -  "  -l       list\n"
> +  "  -l       list (use \"-l -l\" for full listing)\n"
>   "  -o name  output to file " LUA_QL("name") " (default is \"%s\")\n"
>   "  -p       parse only\n"
>   "  -s       strip debug information\n"

Wow. I've combed through most of the Lua source in my time here and
had no idea this existed. What a nifty feature.

It's not in the man page either. "-l -l" seems very weird from a unix
program standpoint. Perhaps a new option letter should be used. In any
case, documenting it would be great :).


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- Patrick Donnelly