Lots of work on the lua read-eval-print loop

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2026-05-21 18:41:09 -04:00
parent f7983b1f02
commit 2bfa3024f1
15 changed files with 70 additions and 120 deletions

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@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ eng::string LuaCoreStack::load(LuaSlot result, std::string_view code, std::strin
const char *str = lua_tolstring(L_, -1, &len);
eng::string message(str, len);
lua_pop(L_, 1);
if (sv::has_suffix(message, "near <eof>"))
if (sv::has_suffix(message, "near <eof>") && sv::is_possible_long_lua_expression(code))
{
message = "truncated lua";
}

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@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ bool PrintChanneler::channel(const PrintBuffer *printbuffer, StreamBuffer *sb) {
line_ = printbuffer->first_line();
}
while (line_ < printbuffer->first_unchecked()) {
sb->write_bytes("|");
sb->write_bytes(printbuffer->nth(line_));
sb->write_bytes("\n");
line_ += 1;

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@@ -200,6 +200,24 @@ bool is_lua_comment(string_view s) {
return s.substr(start, 2) == "--";
}
bool is_possible_long_lua_expression(string_view s) {
read_space(s);
string_view id = read_lua_identifier(s);
if (id.empty()) return false;
if ((id == "function") || (id == "if") || (id == "while") || (id == "for") || (id == "repeat") || (id == "do")) return true;
if (id == "local")
{
read_space(s);
id = read_lua_identifier(s);
}
read_space(s);
read_prefix(s, "="); // If not present, returns false but we continue anyway.
read_space(s);
if (has_prefix(s, "[")) return true;
if (has_prefix(s, "(")) return true;
return false;
}
bool is_whitespace(string_view s) {
for (int i = 0; i < int(s.size()); i++) {
if (!ascii_isspace(s[i])) {

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@@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ bool is_lua_classname(string_view s);
// Return true if the line of code is a lua comment.
bool is_lua_comment(string_view s);
// Return true if the line of code could be the beginning of a long expression.
// In a read-eval-print loop, if the user types something like "function foo",
// that's not a complete lua expression. But we don't want to just print an error,
// we want to give the user a chance to continue typing so that he can turn it
// into a complete lua expression. This function returns true if the string looks
// like the beginning of a long lua expression. This is only a heuristic.
bool is_possible_long_lua_expression(string_view s);
// Return true if the line is entirely whitespace.
bool is_whitespace(string_view s);

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@@ -1071,6 +1071,10 @@ void World::run_scheduled_threads() {
PrettyPrint::Indented().print(LSCO, LuaSpecial(i), &lthread_prints_);
lthread_prints_ << std::endl;
}
if (lthread_prints_.view().empty())
{
lthread_prints_ << "ok\n";
}
}
} else if (status == LUA_YIELD) {
if (is_authoritative()) {