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Another crazy idea I just had. lol
Write a Lua like language as a thin wrapper around C. Try to keep it
out of C++ territory, or call it C++ done right. B-)
It's basically a hybrid of Lua and C syntax, so could be called LuaC,
though I quite like LunaCy, since Lua and Luna both mean "The Moon".
Plus, as mentioned above, it's a crazy idea. lol
The first rule of LunaCy is -
The voices in my head don't talk about LunaCy. B-)
The idea is to have our cake and eat it to. A high level language that
mostly looks like Lua, but is actually a lower level, coz it's mostly
pure C with little overhead. Though I also like the idea of sticking
with C semantics, but with Lua features. Dealing with the Pascal like
semantics of Lua might not work so well, especially "end".
So start with Lua tables, and implement that in C. EFL might be
interested in this bit, since Raster has always wanted the ability to
pass Lua tables as parts of EFL messages. Should also have a
translation function, so we can pass these tables between C and Lua.
"..." might be hard to deal with. Though maybe varargs with callbacks?
Things like ".." would have to be some sort of syntax parser to turn
that into C.
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