scrapping the preprocessor

["John Passaniti" <jmp@...>]

Luiz Henrique de Fiqueiredo wrote:

> We want to keep things as simple as possible (see the
> recent posting by Roberto on the C API, and the
> decision to scrap the preprocessor).

A feature of the preprocessor I use often is taken from the current FAQ,
section 3.6:

     $if modulename
     $endinput
     $end

I use this quite a bit and would like to know what the equivalent will be under the next version of Lua.