LUA (part 2)

If you could change something in Lua to make it better and look more like LISP, what would you change? _{I know it already has semantics very close to those of LISP, but it could do so much better.}

For example, I would add another atomic type for integers (signed and unsigned) and a ^ZOMG OPT_IMIZED cons data structure. Obviously, I would also make the damn arrays zero-based; whoever had the retarded idea of making them start at one needs to go play in the traffic.

What do you think, /prog/?

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Homoiconic parathethised syntax is the requirement for it to be at least a minimal Lisp. Of course, if you take a full-fledged lisp and remove that, you might get something very close to lisp, maybe even enough for it to be a honorary lisp, but still not a lisp(see:dylan).

>>1
I'd love seeing statements returning values, i.e. a = if x then y else z end.

Hey guys where can I get a Lua implementation that indexes from zero? Someone must have built one by now...

This might help you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcxxh1yewhM

I'm currently wondering if Lua has any technical advantages over Squirrel, æsthetics aside.

>>7
I still haven't gotten around to looking at Squirrel.