Lua Common Core Alliance? was (Re: MoonScript)

["Patrick Mc(avery" <patrick@...>]

Hi Leaf, Hi List

I like what you have done with moonscript. It looks fun and I will try 
it out but what is also great is that you have built something that you 
like to work with but that is still compatible with Lua itself.

There are other languages that take a similar approach to compatibility 
such as Objective Lua. Could I suggest that you and other like minded 
individuals form some sort of common core alliance like what Debian did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCC_Alliance

There are always many posts to the list from people who want to have 
things changed in the language(exceptions, nil, #, local vs global) if 
there was some sort of ground rules laid out and perhaps some sort of 
intermediary API then people could add or remove features while still 
retaining commonality. If these other languages built all their 
libraries in Lua or C with the C API then we could all benefit from 
their work.

Just a suggestion if anyone is interested........ I can't really help to 
make it a reality right now though-Patrick