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On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 04:37  AM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
1. Is it possible to expose more of Lua's internals as libraries?

In particular, it'd be really nice to be able to get at the internals of
the compilation process, e.g. to be able to manipulate code as data
(rather than resorting to string mangling as at present). Similarly, see
my past proposals on the list about being able to plug in a different
regexp engine or (more controversially) garbage collector.

I'd love to see this.

Also, I think the most important standard library needed is a small one for dealing with file system directories.(getting lists of/attributes of files, etc).

Steve