#define in C = ?? in Lua

[Ron Hudson <rhudson@...>]

What is the preprocessor that C uses?

I wonder if it could be used with LUA as well

example - I just wrote a StarTrek game in Lua, it would have been good 
to
be able to say

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#define ENTERPRISE 4


if Sector[x..y] = ENTERPRISE then write("+") end

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btw1  I used tables:  x=5 y=5  Sector[x..y] = somthng
                       for Sector[55]...

is there a better way? Tables were nice because I did not have to worry
about out of bounds.  This is an opinion question.

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btw2  I found that lua 4.0    write() == lua 5.0  io.write ==

So a simple edit/search/replace fixes that.. right?

Is there a place to upload my star trek game? (for comments :^)
ron.