Hello,
I know that 5.0 final is is feature freeze status, but then, the sooner
proposals are in the pipeline for the next version the better :-)
So, here it is:
Basically, passing a script or precompiled buffer to the parser
results in a
lua closure left on the stack of the lua state. Actually doing what the
buffer defines is done by calling it. My suggestion is to enable
argument
passing, as is possible for any "regular" function call (currently it
is
possible to call the resulting function with arguments, but of course
these
are ignored because the chunk has no means to access them). Of course
this
requires a syntax addition which could look like :
chunkparams <param list>
...
Most probably nothing but comments or empty lines can be allowed
before the
chunkparams statement, which acts just like the parameter list in a
function
declaration. As far as I can tell, this would not require any change
in the
virtual machine, but only in the parser, to modify the closure's
prototype
and account for these variables during compilation.
Any thoughts about this ?
Benoit.
