Changing syntax

["andrew cooke" <andrew@...>]

Hi,

As far as I can tell, Lua evaluates arguments to functions eagerly.  Is
there any way of treating blocks of code lazily?

For example, if I want to add a "case" statement to Lua that looks
something like:

case x
of   1 do ... end
of   2 do ... end
else   do ... end

would I be able to?  My initial idea was to define case as a vararg
function, but if arguments are evaluated eagerly then this won't work (I
believe).

The syntax in the example above isn't important - what I'm looking for is
a way of handling sections of code as first class objects, and for them
not to be evaluated when passed as arguments, I think.

Cheers,
Andrew

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