Re: Lua on Reddit again

[Alex Bradbury <asb@...>]

On 31 January 2011 09:20, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it would be a different language that would compile to Lua
> (coffeeLua), but what I'd like to see is a lighter function and block
> syntax, and a lighter, more expression-based control structure syntax.
> It would probably require a reworking of scope rules, maybe a hard
> look at return, but it could be done, and the result would be the most
> glorious language ever.

I'm not at all unhappy with Lua's syntax, but I do think looking at
making some equivalent to (and probably derivative of) Javascripts
CoffeeScript[1] would be an interesting project.

Alex

[1]: http://coffeescript.org