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Reuben Thomas wrote:
> 
> Not so many who are looking at Lua for fun.

Oh, come on.  Programming is fun.  And Lua is for programers :-)

> The main one I haven't seen on the list yet is making code first class. A
> code block should be a table of statements, so instead of
> 
> do ... end
> 
> you write (in unsugared notation)
> 
> { ... }
> 
> This allows code to be manipulated by programs.

If I understand you right, you want to play with code like you can in
Lisp or Scheme?  Is that even reasonable for a language with syntax and
lexical semantics?  And by the way, I don't like self modifying code ;-)

Ciao, ET.