venus lua parser

A parser that loads venus files into lua. Written in lua.
The parser reads the lua file replaces venus syntax by lua syntax and loads the result.

features

foreach

The foreach statement will geneate a pairs statement.

local table = {2,1,3,"test"}

foreach el in table do
  print(el)
end

will generate

local table = {2,1,3,"test"}

for _, el in table do
  print(el)
end

comments

for comments --, // and ## can be used if something follows a -- it will always be treated as comment

##todo

• curly braces
• increment, decrement, etc.
• fn and lambdas
• eventually be able to produce lua files

working with the parser

loading

The init.lua returns a table containing the parser.
In case you have the VenusParser directory within your project's
ways of loding it may be:

-- using require (cached)
local vc = require("VenusParser")
-- using dofile
local vc = dofile("VenusParser/init.lua")

running venus files

vc.dovenus(file) works like dofile(file)
It's argument can be a relative or absolute path to the file that should be run.

loading venus files

vc.loadvenus(file) works like loadfile(file)
It's argument can be a relative or absolute path to the file that should be loaded.
It returns a function that runs the generated lua.