Re: Lua language extension for complex number and vector values

[Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@...>]

> I believe that a more mathematical oriented language can be useful
> because Lua is very well designed and almost perfect in its nature but
> being a general purpose language it lacks some specific features that
> can be of great importance in a mathematical oriented language.
>
> I will came later with the specification of this new language ;) for
> the moment I've just nothing more than a few confused idea :-/

Have you every looked at Mathematica for inspiration?  Everything in
it is patterns, which ends up being incredibly powerful for symbolic
operations.  Mathematica code that exploits it's pattern/functional
capabilities is almost as hard to read as perl though.

wes