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+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Fabien Fleutot and others.
+--
+-- All rights reserved.
+--
+-- This program and the accompanying materials are made available
+-- under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which
+-- accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+-- http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+--
+-- This program and the accompanying materials are also made available
+-- under the terms of the MIT public license which accompanies this
+-- distribution, and is available at http://www.lua.org/license.html
+--
+-- Contributors:
+-- Fabien Fleutot - API and implementation
+--
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+--
+-- Exported API:
+-- * [M.table_bracket_field()]
+-- * [M.table_field()]
+-- * [M.table_content()]
+-- * [M.table()]
+--
+-- KNOWN BUG: doesn't handle final ";" or "," before final "}"
+--
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+local gg = require 'metalua.grammar.generator'
+
+return function(M)
+
+ M.table = { }
+ local _table = gg.future(M.table)
+ local _expr = gg.future(M).expr
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- `[key] = value` table field definition
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ M.table.bracket_pair = gg.sequence{ "[", _expr, "]", "=", _expr, builder = "Pair" }
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- table element parser: list value, `id = value` pair or `[value] = value` pair.
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ function M.table.element (lx)
+ if lx :is_keyword (lx :peek(), "[") then return M.table.bracket_pair(lx) end
+ local e = M.expr (lx)
+ if not lx :is_keyword (lx :peek(), "=") then return e end
+ lx :next(); -- skip the "="
+ local key = M.id2string(e) -- will fail on non-identifiers
+ local val = M.expr(lx)
+ local r = { tag="Pair", key, val }
+ r.lineinfo = { first = key.lineinfo.first, last = val.lineinfo.last }
+ return r
+ end
+
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- table constructor, without enclosing braces; returns a full table object
+ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ M.table.content = gg.list {
+ -- eta expansion to allow patching the element definition
+ primary = _table.element,
+ separators = { ",", ";" },
+ terminators = "}",
+ builder = "Table" }
+
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- complete table constructor including [{...}]
+ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ -- TODO beware, stat and expr use only table.content, this can't be patched.
+ M.table.table = gg.sequence{ "{", _table.content, "}", builder = unpack }
+
+ return M
+end
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