To find the first word we currently strip all Lua comments. This is really wasteful for large definitions. At least avoid all these allocations if the first word is not a comment.
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-- Return the first word, after skipping Lua comments.if not buf:match('^%s*%-%-') thenreturn buf:match('^%s*(%S+)') -- avoid unnecessary allocationsend-- wastefully strip out comments everywhere, not just at the startbuf = buf:gsub('%-%-[^\n]*', '') -- line commentsreturn buf:match('^%s*(%S+)')