Next Version of Lua

["Michael Newberry" <mnewberry@...>]

If you are taking suggestions for the next Lua release, mine would is that 
it would be nice to have more detailed compiler messages.

For example, considering assignment instead of a test:

   a = 1
   if a = 1 then foo end

gives
   Error: Loading Module 'Script Document1': :2: `then' expected near `='

With some fonts, =  looks a lot like  ==.  If the test is complex, finding a 
buried = can get hairy. Would it be possible to flag that as looking like 
the programmer intended to do a test and accidentally did an assignment?

Here's another one:

   `=' expected near `ot'

is thrown by

   ifn ot CMyClass then

OK, I know this is obvious, but this one sometimes gets tough if you have 
the right combination of characters.

There are plenty more examples where a more sophisticated error message 
would be a great help.

Thanks,

Michael