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Lua Application/Server Interface version 0.3.0

Authors

Matthew "LeafStorm" Frazier <leafstormrush@gmail.com>, Stuart P. Bentley <stuart@testtrack4.com>

Date

January 26, 2011

Status

Early draft

This document specifies an interface between Web servers and Web applications written in the Lua programming language, to promote interoperability between Web servers and the development of an ecosystem of reusable components for Lua on the Web.

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This gist has been deprecated: see sdldoctables

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local function base (digit_list)
  local b = #digit_list
  if b == 0 then
    return function(number) return "" end
  elseif b == 1 then
    local mark = digit_list[1]
    return function(number)
      return string.rep(mark, number)
    end
  else

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--The values used to represent trees, fires, and empty space.
local TREE = 'T'
local BURNING = '#'
local EMPTY = ' '

--Returns a table with gettors and settors for 2D coordinates.
--This implementation uses a single underlying 1-dimensional
--array table. It could also be changed to use a 2-dimensional
--table of row/column tables, or a table with serialized coordinates.
local function array2d(w,h)

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To listen to your messages, press 1.
To send a message, press 2.
To change your personal options, press 4.
> Personal options.
  To turn message waiting indicator on or off, press 1.
  - Message waiting indicator on.
    To turn message waiting indicator off, press 2.
    > Message waiting indicator now off.
    : Personal options.
    To exit, press *.

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--table of Windows Time Display Notation specifiers
--(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307938) to the equivalent
--format specifiers for the Visual C++ Runtime Library's
--version of strftime (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fe06s4ak.aspx).

local wtdn2sftf = {
  --'t' does only the first character of %p:
  --no strftime equivalent
  tt = 'p',
  H  = '#H',

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lines=[[
Deborah was a Catholic girl
she held out till the bitter end
Carla was a different type
she's the one who put it in
Mary was a black girl
I was afraid of a girl like that
Suzen painted pictures
sitting down like a Buddha sat

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local src = http.request"http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ldapext-ldap-c-api-05.txt"
src = string.gsub(src,[[
Expires: May 2001 -%[Page %d+%]

C LDAP API -C LDAP Application Program Interface -17 November 2000]],"\n") 

local function count(pat) 
  return select(2,string.gsub(src,pat,"")) 
end 
local function plain(str) 

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local fp = require "fancyparams"

myfunction = fp(
  {{"a"},{"b",7},{"c",5}},
  function(a, b, c)
    print(a, b, c)
  end
)

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return function (t,o)
  local refs = {}
  local rk, rv
  if type(o.recurse) == "string" then
    if string.find(o.recurse,'k') then
      rk = true end
    if string.find(o.recurse,'v') then
      rv = true end
  elseif o.recurse then
    rk=true; rv=true