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==== Special delimiters ==== | ==== Special delimiters ==== | ||
:1. Back ticks surrounding text passed directly to a context will be stripped, such that the resulting text will get treated as a script block to be run in the context. Normally all text is passed verbatim, including quotes. Useful for multi-line scripts. | :1. Back ticks surrounding text passed directly to a context will be stripped, such that the resulting text will get treated as a script block to be run in the context. Normally all text is passed verbatim, including quotes. Useful for multi-line scripts. | ||
<kua> | <kua> | ||
> lua run 'print "bob"' | > lua run 'print "bob"' | ||
bob | bob | ||
: | </kua> | ||
:Calls the 'lua' context 'run' command, and as normal 'print "bob"' is a complete parameter for 'run', that then gets executed in the Lua runtime all together. | |||
<kua> | |||
> lua 'print "bob"' | > lua 'print "bob"' | ||
Error in : [string "'print "bob"'"]:1: unexpected symbol near ''print "bob"'' (3) | Error in : [string "'print "bob"'"]:1: unexpected symbol near ''print "bob"'' (3) | ||
</kua> | </kua> | ||
: | : Gets presented to the 'lua' context, verbatim as 'print "bob"' as normal, and treated necessarily as a command to be run. This fails as "'print" is not a valid 'lua' context command, and 'print "bob"' is not valid Lua. | ||
<kua> | <kua> | ||
> lua `print "bob"` | > lua `print "bob"` | ||
bob | bob | ||
</kua> | </kua> | ||
: With back ticks. Treats the first and last back-tick in statement as a text block. Normally quotes are not removed as they may be important to the context. Back ticks are special in that they will be removed from the start and end of the statement. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* | * | ||