Warning: this is an htmlized version!
The original is here, and
the conversion rules are here.

-- The object model.
-- (find-luamanualw3m "#pdf-setmetatable")
-- (find-es "lua5" "metatable-reductions")
-- Dnode(o) -~-> Dnode.mt.__call(Dnode, o)
--          -~-> Metatable.__call(Dnode, o)
--          -~-> setmetatable(o, Dnode)

Metatable = {
    type   = "Metatable",
    specialkeys = {"type"},
    __call = function (mt, T) return setmetatable(T, mt) end,
  }
setmetatable(Metatable, Metatable)
Dnode = Metatable {
    type = "Dnode",
    specialkeys = {"foo", "bar"},
  }
node = Dnode {tag = "a"}

otype = function (o)
    if type(o) ~= "table" then return type(o) end
    local mt = getmetatable(o)
    if mt and mt.type then return mt.type end
    return type(o)
  end

--[[
* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
smt = setmetatable
gmt = getmetatable
PP(node)
PP(gmt(node))
PP(gmt(gmt(node)))
PP(otype(node))
PP(otype(gmt(node)))
PP(otype(gmt(gmt(node))))

--]]


--[[
* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
ee_dofile "~/LUA/tostring.lua"

Primtype = Metatable {
  type = "Primtype",
  __index = {
    toptype = function (o) return o[1] end,
  },
}
Array = Metatable {
  type = "Array",
  __index = {
    toptype = function (o) return o[1]:toptype().."["..(o[2] or "").."]" end,
  },
}
Ptr = Metatable {
  type = "Ptr",
  __index = {
    toptype = function (o) return o[1]:toptype().."*" end,
  },
}



char  = Primtype {"char",  size=1, align=1}
int   = Primtype {"int",   size=4, align=4}
short = Primtype {"short", size=2, align=2}
char4 = Array {char, 4}
char4_ = Array {char4, nil}
= char:tostype()
= char4:tostype()
= char4_:tostype()

--]]





-- (find-angg "LUA/lua50init.lua" "mytostring")
-- (find-elnode "Index" "* mapconcat:")
-- Faltam: otype, ...

oformatq  = function (str) return format("%q", str) end
oangle    = function (o)   return "<"..tostring(o)..">" end
otabletos = function (T)
    return ospecialtos(T, {"foo", "bar"}, "nums", tos)
  end
otosfunctions = {
    ["number"]   = tostring,
    ["nil"]      = tostring,
    ["boolean"]  = tostring,
    ["string"]   = oformatq,
    ["function"] = oangle,
  }
rawtos = function (o, fallback)
    local t = type(o)
    local f = otosfunctions[t]
           or (t=="table" and otabletos)
           or tostring
    return f(o)
  end

ocomp = function (key1, key2)
    local t1, t2 = type(key1), type(key2)
    if t1~=t2 then return t1 < t2 end
    if t1=="number" then return key1 < key2 end
    if t1=="string" then return key1 < key2 end
    return tostring(key1) < tostring(key2)
  end
ospecialtos = function (T, specialkeys, nums, tos)
    local keys, T2 = {}, {}
    for k,v in pairs(T) do keys[k] = k end
    local del = function (k) keys[k] = nil end
    local has = function (k) return keys[k]~=nil end
    local put = function (str) table.insert(T2, str) end
    for _,sk in ipairs(specialkeys) do
      if has(sk) then put(sk.."="..tos(T[sk])); del(sk) end
    end
    if nums then
      for i=1,#T do
        if has(i) then put(tos(T[i])); del(i) else break end
      end
    end
    local keylist = {}
    for k,v in pairs(keys) do table.insert(keylist, k) end
    table.sort(keylist, ocomp)
    for _,k in ipairs(keylist) do
      put(tos(k).."="..tos(T[k]))
    end
    return "{"..table.concat(T2, ", ").."}"
  end


--[[
* (eepitch-lua51)
* (eepitch-kill)
* (eepitch-lua51)
ee_dofile "~/LUA/tostring.lua"

= tos{22, 33}
= tos{foo="f", bar="b", plic="p", 22, 33, nil, 55}


--]]



mapconcat = function (f, T, sep)
    local T2 = {}
    for i=1,(T.n or #T) do table.insert(T2, f(T[i])) end
    return table.concat(T2, sep or " ")
  end
otablesize = function (T)
    for i=1,#T+1 do if T[i]==nil then return i-1 end end
  end

pmapconcat = function (f, T, sep)
    print(" " .. mapconcat(f, T, sep))
  end
PPwith = function (f, ...)
    pmapconcat(\ (o) => otostringwith(f, o) end, pack(...), " ")
  end

-- Tests:
-- PPwith(oang,       22, nil, true, false, "22", print, {22, 33})
-- PPwith(mytostring, 22, nil, true, false, "22", print, {22, 33})

okeyset = function (T)    -- o is a table
    local keyset = {}
    for key,val in pairs(T) do keyset[key] = key end
    return keyset         -- return the "set" of all keys of o
  end





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-- modes:   (fundamental-mode lua-mode)
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