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Matias Guijarro wrote: Hello, I find your approach interesting ; where may I find the patch/source code for your new "command" statement ? I would like to give it a try... Thanks in advance, M. Sorry to be slow in responding, our servers were being swapped, and I lost a bunch of email. I'm happy to share my code via email, though it's not elegant, it's just for local use. Also, even though I've been using lua for less than a month, my code is already "old", a new version of lua.c has been released. The new version is even shorter than the previous, and approaches the level of "art code", it will almost be a shame to hack it, but that's what it's there for. The idea of functions without parentheses, or "commands", has been discussed in other threads, I think it's a good idea. Being able to skip the parentheses is a convenience for commands one types dozens of times a day. Further, they are a feature of competing languages. We implement them line-by-line in the interpreter, the internal parser is unaffected. Only the most common ten or twenty functions we use get turned into commands, for example, "print". After > command print > print aa 'howdy ' 137.5 <--> print(aa,'howdy ',137.5) The basic idea is to replace spaces by commas, except in strings. You do have to remember to say 2*x and not 2 * x, but even I can remember that. Also > print(x) print(y) <--> print(x) print(y) because we don't change anything when we see an open paren after a command word. This mod doesn't rise to the level of a language change, but for us it's at least as useful as > =2+2 <--> return 2+2 I don't see the = mod in the "The Complete Syntax of Lua" either! rob |