Re: clumsiness of pcall() syntax and how we deal with it

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-04-28 18:53 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> I currently believe that an integrated macro library, written with the
> same wisdom and care that Lua was authored with, is the most exciting
> possibility for future Lua.
>
> It is vaccination the inevitable death march towards Language
> Bloat.[2]  Lua has avoided this thanks to the development model.
> However, perhaps PUC/Rio could ensure their legacy by providing us
> with macros before they retire. :)

They have. They gave us a string library and an LPeg module,
plus a "load" function. Exercise for the reader: exploit these to
write a "define" function.