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- Subject: Re: pipeing fucntions
- From: Michal Kottman <k0mpjut0r@...>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:03:46 +0200
On 25 June 2012 19:34, <meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (Warning! Newbie ahead!)
>
> With UNIX systems you can build chains of cammands
> on the commandline eacht connected via stdout/stdin.
>
> Is it possible to chain lua-functions in a similiar way, that is:
> To create an output stream with one function which gets the
> input stream of another function?
>
> Is taht possible (portable...)?
You can implement this kind of chaining (source -> filter -> ... ->
filter -> sink) using this code [1] by Diego Nehab, which is also
extensively used in LuaSocket. It is a very interesting reading and I
suggest you read through it.
[1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/FiltersSourcesAndSinks
