On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Giel van Schijndel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Per Inge Mathisen schreef:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Giel van Schijndel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
>> wrote:
>>> Sure, but do we want to change every single [lexer interpreted] file format 
>>> to Lua?
>>
>> Why not? :-)
>>
>> I guess some can just plain be retired, like the animation lexer,
>> which WZM will obsolete entirely.
>
> Actually rather than asking ourselves "why not?", I prefer to ask [for
> each format we want to change] "why should we use Lua instead?". As long
> as we use that approach (and are capable of answering that question with
> something more like "Lua rocks.", "Lua is cool.", etc.) I don't mind
> using Lua.
>
> My main concern was just that ^^, I don't want to change every single
> format to Lua just because we can.

I thought it was obvious due to the context of this discussion, but
the main reason I want to use lua is to get rid of the dependencies on
flex and bison. They are a maintenance nightmare.

  - Per

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