Re: Filter input/parsing timing

[Jeff Kingston]

> Is there a way to force lout to analyze the value of @a, @b, and @c
> before it passes them along to the filter?

No. Filter input comes straight from the input file in every case.
This is what it's for: to bypass the Lout parser in cases where
the input format doesn't conform to any Lout grammar, such as
computer programs and the like.

There is no way to insert user-defined functions into the object
evaluation process, other than functions defined in Lout; and Lout
is not a fully-fledged programming languages, so there are things
you can't do in it, such as the sorting of your example.

If you tell us what you are actually trying to achieve, there
might be another way.  At the moment your email is artificially
constraining the discussion to one method of solution, which is
not working.

Jeff