A hand-written recursive descent parser for Lua 5.3, in Lua 5.3!

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    A Lua parser for Lua 5.3, written in Lua. (Still in progress)

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    Parsing Expression Grammar Template Library

    In case you are still fighting with left-recursion you might be interested in this: https://github.com/taocpp/PEGTL/blob/master/src/example/pegtl/lua53.hpp

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