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On Feb 26, 7:50 am, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
> You should also consider providing a slightly thicker wrapper that
> does the conversion from Interfaces.C.Strings.chars_ptr to
> Standard.String; that will make this easier to use with plain Ada
> programs.

I plan on doing that, once I have the thin wrapper done.  A reason for
the thin wrapper is to retain speed - one of the benefits of lua.

> Lua has a website:http://www.lua.org/

Gee, I wish I'd said that :-)

> I'm not clear on how it manages dynamically allocated memory; that
> would be a concern for some embedded systems.

That's a good question, to which I may try to find an answer.  I don't
develop for embedded systems (I hope I didn't misuse the phrase
"embedded language" - I meant a language "embedded" within my
program), so I hadn't really thought about it much.

> I'm currently using OpenToken to build my own language for controlling
> my simulator. That language has no control structures or subroutines.
> I might consider switching to Lua to gain those things.

In general, I prefer to reuse languages -  *everyone* writes their
own, including where I work.  It's pretty poor (effective, but limited
and I suspect that it's slower than lua), which is why I want to
propose the use of lua.