SharkD <mik### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > - The scripting language should also be designed so that it's easy to
> >   flexibly read, parse and write data files (as well as handle the data
> >   itself). This would allow writing things like 3DS or OBJ file format
> >   importers as libraries. (This is an example of something which should
> >   definitely be a library rather than a core feature.)


> I agree with this as well. I wrote a parser for Lua once, so I know how 
> difficult it can be. Are there any examples of existing languages we can 
> compare to that were designed with this aspect in mind?

  I think you misunderstood what I wrote.

  I said that the SDL itself should be as flexible and expressive as possible
so that it will be possible (and preferably easy) to write file format parser
in SDL.

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                                                          - Warp

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