Re: ANN: Serpent: Lua serializer and pretty printer

[Eric Wing <ewmailing@...>]

On 6/6/12, Paul K <paulclinger@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, yet another serializer and pretty printer. I carefully studied
> existing implementations and described my rationale and examples here:
> http://notebook.kulchenko.com/programming/serpent-lua-serializer-pretty-printer.
>
> My requirements for a serializer: (1) pure Lua (need to execute it as
> part of a debugger on various platforms including mobile), (2) does
> both pretty printing and robust serialization, (3) handles shared and
> self-references, (4) serializes keys of various types, including
> tables as keys, and (5) is short and doesn't have too many
> dependencies to be included with another module.
>
> To summarize, I want the serialized result that is as readable as
> possible and is still a valid fragment that I can load with
> loadstring. The implementation is fairly short and sufficiently fast
> for my needs, but I'm sure it can be improved on both of those counts.
>
> "Serpent" because it handles self-references and reminds me of a
> serpent eating its own tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros).
> Available on github.
>
> Paul.
>
>

Very nice! I think you managed to accomplish everything I had on my
personal wish list for a serializer.

Thanks so much for making this available!
-Eric
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