Re: BASIC-like Lua variant

[Choonster TheMage <choonster.2010@...>]

On 15 January 2014 00:53,  <colinz@gmx.com> wrote:
> On 2014-01-14 14:48, Choonster TheMage wrote:
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>> Not unless you use a modified version of Lua or a source-to-source
>> converter. Lua lets you overload the functionality of existing
>> operators, but you can't create your own aliases for them.
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> What about preprocessing. Does Lua have a preprocessor?
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There's no preprocessor built in to the language, but there are third
party Lua-based languages like Metalua[1] which offer macros.

[1] http://metalua.luaforge.net/download.html