Re: Can I get the return values NOT adjusted to zero?

[Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:45:11PM -0400, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Sam Roberts wrote:
> 
> >But wait... looking a lua.c, I see that it appears to be
> >using "=" as a short hand for "put return at the start of
> >this line".
> 
> Yep.  If you don't want the user to have to type "=" or
> "return ", and you also want them to be able to type
> statements or blocks of statements as well as expressions, a
> trick for doing this without needing to parse the user's
> input is briefly described at
> 
>  http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2005-04/msg00159.html

Load it with return at the front, then load it again without if there
was a syntax error. I like it, thanks.

Sam